What permissions for PHP scripts/directories?

Question

I am trying to help a friend moving a web-site from one web-hotel to another. The old place is already closed, I have only a flat tar file of what was in it.

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Answer 1

Assuming your SFTP/FTP user is johndoe and web server group is www-data. johndoe only read, write the files but not execute the files (in my case never). The web server software usually Apache/Nginx from the group www-data can read/write/execute the files. Other users? what are they doing here??? So, I used to set 0670 (rw-rwx---) and works for me always :)