After developing the application locally, when the application is moved to production, people find that web page fails to display the content. This may be due to proper file permissions. Some simply gives complete read, write and execute permission for files and directories like this:
sudo chmod -R 777 path/to/root
which is a serious security concern. Follow these steps to securely grant permissions to your files:
Assumptions:
– Web server: www-data
– User: ubuntu
Step 1: chown the root directory:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/root
Step 2: Grant FTP for uploading and working with files (for using any FTP client):
sudo usermod -a -G www-data ubuntu
Step 3: Set file permission to 644:
sudo find /path/to/root -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
Step 4: Set directory permission to 755:
sudo find /path/to/root -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
Step 5: Give rights for web server to read and write storage and cache
sudo chgrp -R www-data storage bootstrap/cache sudo chmod -R ug+rwx storage bootstrap/cache
In this way your website is up and secure.
When you write root directory do you mean project directory?
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Yes the main directory for your project.
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