750 permissions on Home Page Only?

Hi ksteele36,

You may find this link helpful: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Changing_File_Permissions or it maybe more then you are looking for.

I’m 100% clear on what you mean by “home page” so if you post back for further assistance please elaborate.

Hope this is helpful for you.
AJ

Thanks for the reply AJ…. I am quite familiar with file and directory permissions but this is not quite the same I am afraid. Somehow the index.php is producing a home page that has permissions of 750 rather than 755 and I do not know why. It is not a matter of logging into my server, locating a file and changing the permissions for that 1 file as this file (home page) is produced dynamically by wordpress (?) – it is the page I created and directed WordPress to make my primary landing page.
See a SS of the warning here: click here

Ksteele36, looks to me like that is the permissions on the root directory for your site not the home page.

–AJ

Yes. But 750 is the default setting for the public_html directory in cPanel… and 777 is default for www directory.

Following permissions on cpanel server:

user home directory 711

public_html 750

public_ftp 755

mail 770

tmp 755

etc 750

cgi-bin 755

www 777
********************************************

So, the dilemma is how to change the file permission for just the home page? My best guess is that this is a htaccess code snippet or maybe this is a iTheme Security module false positive as I am looking at several published sites now that are all cPanel sites and ALL have the same permissions for the www and public_html directories… so, I am assuming the same home page permissions. Hmmmmm… I think it may be time to call the host to figure this one out.

AJ, your input is very appreciated. Thank you.

“K”

Also, this: The difference between 755 and 750 is that 755 gives everybody write permission for the directory, with 750 only the owner and group have write permissions.

So, I cannot foresee this as a bad thing…. maybe this should be reviewed by iThemes Security and the flag warning removed from their scan results. ???

CORRECTION: 755 permissions is default for public_html