Correct owner and permissions for folders and files on linux

16AugAugust 16, 2017

This command will change ownership of the folder recursively

chown -R username:groupname /var/www/

This command will change folder permissions recursively

find /var/www/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

This command will change files permissions recursively

find /var/www/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;