Setting up permissions for WordPress on Amazon EC2 (Amazon Linux)

Question

I setup WordPress on an Amazon EC2 instance. It\'s using Amazon Linux and is a standard setup (just php5 and mysql).

WordPress works fine, but there\'s some permission i

Answer 1

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/hosting-wordpress.html

To fix file permissions for the Apache web server

Some of the available features in WordPress require write access to the Apache document root (such as uploading media though the Administration screens). The web server runs as the apache user, so you need to add that user to the www group that was created in the LAMP web server tutorial.

Add the apache user to the www group.

[ec2-user wordpress]$ sudo usermod -a -G www apache Change the file ownership of /var/www and its contents to the apache user.

[ec2-user wordpress]$ sudo chown -R apache /var/www Change the group ownership of /var/www and its contents to the www group.

[ec2-user wordpress]$ sudo chgrp -R www /var/www Change the directory permissions of /var/www and its subdirectories to add group write permissions and to set the group ID on future subdirectories.

[ec2-user wordpress]$ sudo chmod 2775 /var/www [ec2-user wordpress]$ find /var/www -type d -exec sudo chmod 2775 {} \; Recursively change the file permissions of /var/www and its subdirectories to add group write permissions.

[ec2-user wordpress]$ find /var/www -type f -exec sudo chmod 0664 {} \; Restart the Apache web server to pick up the new group and permissions.

[ec2-user wordpress]$ sudo service httpd restart Stopping httpd:
[ OK ] Starting httpd: [ OK ]