Uploading images folder/permissions

  • I installed wordpress, posting was fine but when i tried to post a pic i got a permission error. After some googling I fixed it by creating a folder in wp-content/uploads and setting it’s permissions to 777. While this did fix the problem, isn’t this a securty issue? doesn’t it mean that anybody on the internet could use that folder on my website to store anything they wanted to?
    Thank you

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  • Yeah, setting permission to 777 is a very bad idea. It gives absolutely anyone read-write-execute permissions.
    You should give folders the permissions 755 and files 644.
    See here: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Changing_File_Permissions

    777 permissions can be dangerous but depending on your server configuration you may need 777 permissions to upload files from WordPress. Assign 755 and see if it works or else you will need 777 permissions to upload folder.

    I cannot seem to find a place to start a new thread anywhere. Since this topic is close to my issue, I’m adding a question here.

    Based on the recent hacking, I tried to change my permissions to make my site more secure. That caused the site (and admin) to disappear completely. After much finagling, I got the site to come back, but had to set WPincludes, WPcontents, & themes at 777 (and admin is unavailable at this setting). In order to get admin to come back, I also had to set permissions for WPadmin, WPplugins, & wordpress files to 777.

    This does NOT seem right! I shouldn’t have to have everything set at 777 to use WP, should I? This seems far too risky in light of the recent hacks.

    Any idea why this is happening? Or how to fix it?

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