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#13725 Joomla Permissions

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Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 02 October 2012 09:24 CDT

Tuesday, 02 October 2012 08:15 CDT

gmedia01
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? No
Have I searched the tickets before posting? No
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? No
Joomla! version: (unknown)
PHP version: (unknown)
MySQL version: (unknown)
Host: (optional, but it helps us help you)
Admin Tools version: (unknown)

Description of my issue:
1. Do I really have to fill the above out every time i need support? It would be great if they were at least populated with the last entry.

2. I know Admin Tools File Permission Manager makes all folders 0755 and all files 0644 by default. Is there an exhaustive list somewhere for what the file permissions should be in Joomla? I want our sites to be developer friendly, but as secure as possible.

Thanks!!
Chris

Tuesday, 02 October 2012 09:24 CDT

nicholas
1. Yes, you have to fill them in every time. It's not necessary that you always request support for the same site, on the same host, without any PHP, MySQL, Joomla! or Admin Tools upgrades in between. If we were to auto-fill these fields it would be as good as having random, outdated data in there.

2. There is no such list. In fact, permissions all by themselves tell you nothing. You need to understand the correlation between users, groups, ownership and permissions. This is all analysed in the Security chapter of Akeeba Backup's documentation. It is also available on hundreds (actually, make that thousands) pages on the Internet. It is a part of the basic knowledge you need when you're hosting sites on a server running Linux or other UNIX-based OS.

Ideally you should be using suPHP or mod_fpm to make sure that each site essentially runs under its own user. This would make 0755 and 0644 permissions ideal and absolutely developer-friendly.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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