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Recursively applying proper directory permissions for your live Joomla website

Secure your Joomla website with correct directory permissions. Step-by-step guide to recursive permission settings for Linux servers.

Amila Rajapaksha
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Amila Rajapaksha
CEO / Managing Director, Mobiz International (Pvt) Ltd

Amila Rajapaksha is the CEO and Managing Director of Mobiz International (Pvt) Ltd, a web design and development company based in Gampaha, Sri Lanka. Since 2010 he has helped businesses across Sri Lanka and overseas launch fast, search-friendly websites and online stores — working hands-on with WordPress, Magento and custom Laravel builds, and the SEO that makes them rank.

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Applying proper directory permissions for your live Joomla websites is one important step in securing it from malicious users online. Use below commands to recursively set permissions to files and directories.  Joomla recommends 707 special permissions for the /images and /images/stories directories.
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
chmod 707 images
chmod 707 images/stories
chown apache:apache cache
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