[wp-testers] 664 - 404

[Aaron Brazell]

I would agree with this adding a mionor bit that yes, WP cannot write to it
if it is any less than 666, but WP not writing to it means no one else
outside the group or the owner can write to it either. I'm actually a little
alarmed, and have been, that WP encourages .htaccess to be 666 so it can
write to it. It's handy for WP but a major security issue as well.

 

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[mailto:wp-testers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Robert Deaton
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 11:22 AM
To: wp-testers at lists.automattic.com
Subject: Re: [wp-testers] 664 - 404

 

Server config wouldn't have much to do with it, but chowning the file would.
If your .htaccess isn't chowned to the same user or group as the webserver,
then 664 isn't enough, because only the user and group that own the file
would be able to write to it. Its always safer to give only the minimum
permissions necessary, so a lot of people note that its best to put it as
664.

On Apr 2, 2005 9:58 AM, Gregory Wild-Smith <greg at twilightuniverse.com>
wrote:

Mine is 644, and wp handles that fine.

Some servers handle permissions differently though, so my guess is for
your server you need 666 *shrugs* one of those wierd server config
issues I would guess.

Podz wrote:

> If my .htaccess is 664, wp will not (cannot ?) write to it, so pages 404.
> If I change it to 666, all is good.
>
> Noting it because I have seen in a couple of places that 664 or less
> is better for .htaccess ?
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