I had a nightmare with file permissions with Cpanel. The problem was i was unable to upload file in cpanel plus i couldnt install a theme or plugin in wordpress. I could not even upload a image in wordpress.
I got unable to create directory problem thrown with wordpress.. It took hours to properly fix this problem. First look the error logs to see what the problem is..
tail /usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log
Here are the basic things you should know about fixing permissions
- First your public_html folder should have 750 permission
- All folders under that should have 755 permission
- All files under that should have 64 permission
- The ownership should be user:user and for public_html user:nobody
Accordingly issue the following
To change all file permissions to 644, run
find /home/user/public_html -type f -exec chmod 644 {} +
To change all folder permissions to 755, run
find /home/bestcitizenships/public_html -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +
To set permissions for only public_html folder
chown bestcitizenships:nobody /home/user/public_html/
Thats it! Restart apache
It solved my problem.
