File permissions: really 777 ??

  • I had to manually create some directories at W3TC’s direction because it couldn’t do so automatically. Specifically, W3TC told me to execute these two commands:

    chmod 777 /home/public/wp-content/cache
    chmod 777 /home/public/wp-content/w3tc-config

    Is this really right? Why am I making these two directories world-writable? I don’t understand.

    Thanks,
    Brian

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/w3-total-cache/

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  • The reason you need to do this is probably because your directory is not set to be owned by the user your apache is running as. This may happen for example when you manually copy the w3tc plugin folder onto your machine through FTP/SFTP.

    You need to chown the directory to whatever apache is running as (often www-data if on debian-based OS).

    Correct, and this is just for installation.

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