Permissions and owner for files in htdocs - Bitnami LAMP server

jdrios 2019-01-09 11:03:55 UTC #6

Hi again!

I don't understand this. Why would WordPress auto-update?

If you create a backup of the files, you can perform the changes I mentioned safely.

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ghina.altal 2019-01-09 11:29:22 UTC #7

@jdrios
I sould run this command then:

sudo chown -R bitnami:daemon /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs
sudo chmod -R g+w /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs

what about .htaccess file ... what the correct permission for it ?
is it bitnami:daemon aslo with write permission to both user?

jdrios 2019-01-10 10:39:46 UTC #8

Hi @ghina.altal

We already provided with information about the .htaccess file in this post. Have you executed the commands we provided?

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ghina.altal 2019-01-10 10:46:06 UTC #10

@jdrios

do you mean these commands??

sudo chown -R bitnami:daemon /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs
sudo chmod -R g+w /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs
sudo chmod 644 /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs/wp-config.php

also what about .htacess file ... should I give it 664 permission also? is it secure to grant daemon group write access to the file???

jota 2019-01-10 10:52:19 UTC #11

Yes @ghina.altal, you need to use those commands as I mentioned in the other thread.

jota 2019-01-10 11:00:55 UTC #12

@ghina.altal,

Sorry but I read the commands you posted wrongly. Please note that the commands you posted above are different from the ones I mentioned in the other thread. You need to run the commands I posted here:

ghina.altal 2019-01-10 11:03:38 UTC #13

@jota
but my website folders and file are located in this path: /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs

jota 2019-01-11 10:13:52 UTC #14

Hi @ghina.altal,

In that case, you will need to run the commands you mentioned

sudo chown -R bitnami:daemon /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs
sudo chmod -R g+w /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs
sudo chmod 644 /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs/wp-config.php

In order to review your current configuration, we have a Support Tool that will gather relevant information for us to review it. Could you please download and execute it on the machine where the stack is running by following the steps described in the guide below?

How to Run the Bitnami Support Tool

Please note that you need to paste the code outputted by the tool in your reply.

ghina.altal 2019-01-13 08:20:08 UTC #15

Hi @jota ,, here is the requested code
629e0830-050d-4fcb-6a74-779cf1b785f5

could you please check the server performance and chech if everything is okay

thank you so much

jota 2019-01-14 11:59:29 UTC #16

Hi @ghina.altal,

The permissions were not changed. You can check them by running this command

sudo ls -la /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs

You will obtain something like this (there are a lot of files that are owned by bitnami)

apache2/htdocs:
total 212
drwxrwxr-x  5 bitnami bitnami  4096 Dec 27 09:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root    root     4096 Aug 15 10:42 ..
rw-r--r--  1 bitnami daemon   4706 Jan 10 07:12 .htaccess
-rw-r--r--  1 bitnami bitnami   418 Jul 17 16:30 index.php
-rw-r--r--  1 bitnami bitnami 19935 Jul 17 16:30 license.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 bitnami bitnami  7415 Dec 27 09:31 readme.html
-rw-r--r--  1 bitnami bitnami    40 Nov 15 10:20 robots.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 bitnami bitnami  6878 Dec 27 09:31 wp-activate.php
drwxr-xr-x  9 bitnami bitnami  4096 Oct 23 15:13 wp-admin
-rw-r--r--  1 bitnami bitnami   364 Jul 17 16:30 wp-blog-heade

Please connect to the instance and run the commands again. Could you please share a screenshot of the console when you run the commands?

Thanks

ghina.altal 2019-01-15 08:07:57 UTC #17

@jota ,, these command right?

sudo chown -R bitnami:daemon /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs
sudo chmod -R g+w /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs
sudo chmod 644 /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs/wp-config.php

please advise is this the default permission and owner? is it secure ??

I mean to grant the group daemon write permission to all folders...

I really get confused about the application permissions and owners?

please advise

jota 2019-01-15 11:43:11 UTC #18

Yes, those commands

Yes, that's secure. The bitnami user needs write privileges because you use that user when using a SSH connection and the daemon group also needs write privileges because Apache uses that group. In case you want to update a plugin, theme, ... Apache needs to write inside the different folders and that's why write permissions are needed. The last command removes write permissions to the daemon group so we ensure that it can't modify the main configuration file of WordPress, that's for security reasons.

Let us know if you have any questions

ghina.altal 2019-01-15 12:21:00 UTC #19

thank you @jota

I've applied the commands above, and now this is the permissions and owner:

is that okay? please to check them for me ... is .htaccess file has the correct permission also?

do you need me to provide you with bitnami tool code ??

jota 2019-01-16 10:14:37 UTC #20

Hi @ghina.altal,

The permissions look correct but as I mentioned, the .htaccess files are not read by Apache by default, did you change that configuration? In case you don't know anything about this, please share the support tool code so we review your configuration.

ghina.altal 2019-01-16 10:30:24 UTC #21

Hi @jota .. actually I don't know what is the default permission for this file (.htaccess)

here is Bitnami tool code, could you please check if the permission for all files on htdocs are correct..

135985d5-b044-c249-0119-331e71d7d619

Thank you in advanced

jota 2019-01-17 14:50:24 UTC #22

Hi @ghina.altal,

The permissions configuration of the htdocs folder looks fine now. Apart from that, as you changed the AllowOverride parameter to "All" in the main configuration file of Apache, it will read the different .htaccess files in the htdocs folder

  <Directory "/opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All

Does everything work as expected?

Thanks

ghina.altal 2019-01-20 06:44:33 UTC #23

@jota ... sorry but I didn't get it

is the current permissions and owners for all files correct?
the .htaccess file has rw-rw-r-- is that correct? if not what permission should i give to it please.

I didn't changed the AllowOverride parameter to "All" , what should it be?

about your question "Does everything work as expected?" what do you mean exactly?

jota 2019-01-21 10:23:26 UTC #24

Hi @ghina.altal

Yes, that's correct.

That is also correct. I just checked that we set the AllowOverride parameter to All in the default VirtualHost so you do not need to do anything.

Could you install WordPress? Can you access it? Do you obtain any error message?

ghina.altal 2019-01-21 10:40:32 UTC #25

@jota thank you so much for your prompt action and support.

for final approval, this is the final permission and owner according to your advise
and I hve run the following commands:

sudo chown -R bitnami:daemon /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs
sudo chmod -R g+w /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs
sudo chmod 644 /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs/wp-config.php

that's it, right? no need to do any thing?

thanks again so much

jota 2019-01-21 11:40:10 UTC #26

Yes, everything looks correct. You do not need to do anything more.

Enjoy!

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