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#16523 Shared hosting optimal permissions

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Latest post by nicholas on Monday, 24 June 2013 10:59 CDT

Monday, 24 June 2013 10:46 CDT

rowby
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Description of my issue:

One of the rave reviews at extensions.joomla.org included this comment:
I had to make a hack to the CHMOD values for this as it was missing the option to set things at values of CHMOD 705 and 604, which are the preferred permissions on shared hosting to prevent cross site


Do you agree that values of 705 and 604 are better for Joomla sites on shared hosting? If so, perhaps an option can be added to admin tools for permission changing on shared hosting.

Thanks!

Rowby

Monday, 24 June 2013 10:59 CDT

nicholas
The permissions alone mean nothing. It's ownership and permissions combined with the user and group the server is running under that mean something. For more information please read the security information chapter in Akeeba Backup User's Guide. I tried to make a concise tutorial on user, groups, ownership and permissions. It may take a few readings to let that sip in your mind. You really have to learn that stuff. You can't even pretend that you're running a safe site unless you understand how that works. Trust me on that :)

After you read all of that you will realise that in most cases 0755/0644 and 0705/0604 are pretty much equivalent and shouldn't trouble you, unless the web server belongs to the same group as the owner of the folders/files. That's why we suggest 0755/0644 as it is equally safe and far less likely to cause any problems.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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