[Plugin: WP Super Cache] error message: WARNING! is writable.Please make it readonly

In my opinion, it’s a vulnerability. Unfortunately, sometimes the webserver runs as the same user account as the human user who runs the site. When this is the case, all files are writeable by the webserver and could possibly be overwritten if the site is hacked.

Enough sites run like this that there’s code in the plugin to stop the warning if the wp-content directory has 755 permissions and still writeable, but the problem of web server writeable files and directories remains.

Interesting. My 755 permissions was set to user: apache / group: apache. The warning goes away when I set to my admin user account/group.

So isn’t that opposite of what I should want. Isn’t apache more secure than using my admin user?

No, it’s more secure if the directory is 755 and owned by admin.

I get that warning also while my wp-content is already 755. It actually started happening after i updated to the latest version of wp-supercache.

I am glad to see though it is gonna get fixed. Thank you!

I’m getting the same error but I have no idea what all this 755 talk is all about. Can someone explain in detail where/how I make this change?

Thanks!