{{tag>wordpress permissions}}

====== Wordpress permissions ======

Once the permission on WP files are tightened (see https://wordpress.org/support/article/hardening-wordpress) you might experience issues with updating the plugins and themes.

To get around this the webserver user should be the owner of the wp-content folder and its content and have write access there. This is usually the user www-data.

So run this:

  chown -R user wordpress_installation
  chown -R www-data wordpress_installation/wp-content
  find /path/to/your/wordpress/install/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
  find /path/to/your/wordpress/install/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

This user should also be the owner of the file.php located in wp-admin/includes/ directory because this file has a function that compares the user of the file.php with the user of file it tries to create in wp-content folder. If it is the same, WP can update the plugin normally through admin web interface otherwise it raises the FTP upload dialog.

  chown -R www-data wordpress_installation/wp-admin/includes/file.php

See here
https://stackoverflow.com/a/53166416/6881647
and here
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/56c162fbc9867f923862f64f1b4570d885f1ff03/wp-admin/includes/file.php#L1549
for the code itself.
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====== See also ======
  * [[wiki:wordpress_troubleshooting|Wordpress troubleshooting]]
====== References ======