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Hi,

Just wanted to make sure my permissions look good:

“uploads” folder: 755
My “default” upload directory: 755
“_thumbs”: 755
“cache”: 755

Here’s where I’m a bit confused:

Uploaded images are a combination of 644 and 777.

When I try to change the permissions of all files to 644, I get an error.

What’s should the permissions be for uploaded files (do cache and _thumbs get different permissions because they are generated by EE?)

Thanks!
Micky

Hello Micky,

Hope your having a great day!

The uploaded files should be 666, which means they are readable and writable by Owner, Group, and World. 4 only gets you readable, a 2 gets you only writable, but 4+2=6 which is readable + writable.

Cache and _thumbs are created by ExpressionEngine.

Per our User Guide, go ahead and change the following folders to 777.

/system/expressionengine/cache/
/images/avatars/uploads/
/images/captchas/
/images/member_photos/
/images/pm_attachments/
/images/signature_attachments/
/images/uploads/

I hope this helps!

Cheers,

That’s perfect Shane! Much appreciated. 😊

That did the trick for me.

Cheers!
Micky

Hello Micky,

My pleasure! I am glad I could help!

Have a great week.

Cheers,