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I've had a look over here but didn't find any details on the best file permissions. I also took a look at some of WordPress's form's questions over here too but anybody that suggests 777 obviously needs a little lesson in security. In short my question is this. What permissions should I have for the following: root folder storing all the WordPress content wp-admin wp-content wp-includes and then all the files in each of those folders? When you setup WP you (the webserver) may need write access to the files. So the access rights may need to be loose. chown www-data:www-data -R * # Let Apache be