Reset default permissions for /var/www
I completely messed up my /var/www/ folder after attempting to change some permissions. Now I am unable to open my localhost in browser.
Following are my permissions in relevant folders.
in root,
d--------- 14 root root 4096 Jan 16 23:57 var
in var,
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 17 04:10 backups
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Jan 17 00:57 cache
drwxrwsrwt 2 root whoopsie 4096 Jan 17 04:10 crash
drwxr-xr-x 69 root root 4096 Jan 17 03:35 lib
drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff 4096 Oct 19 14:44 local
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 16 21:13 lock -> /run/lock
drwxrwxr-x 12 root syslog 4096 Jan 17 16:31 log
drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 Oct 21 21:19 mail
drwxrwsrwt 2 root whoopsie 4096 Oct 21 21:30 metrics
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 21 21:19 opt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jan 16 21:13 run -> /run
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Oct 21 21:27 spool
drwxrwxrwt 5 root root 4096 Jan 17 17:27 tmp
drw------- 3 www-data www-data 4096 Jan 16 23:57 www
in /var/www/
drwxrwx--- 3 www-data www-data 4096 Jan 17 00:33 html
in /var/www/html/
-rwxrwx--- 1 www-data www-data 20 Jan 17 00:00 info.php
-rwxrwx--- 1 www-data www-data 11321 Jan 16 23:57 index.html
drwxrwx--- 4 www-data www-data 4096 Jan 17 03:01 movie
The following are some of the commands I did that messed the whole thing up
199 sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/
200 sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www
201 chmod go-rwx /var/www
202 chmod go-rwx /var/www/html/
203 sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/
204 chmod go-rwx /var/www/html/
205 chmod go+x /var/www/html/
206 chgrp -R www-data /var/www/html/
207 hmod -R go-rwx /var/www/html/
208 chmod -R go-rwx /var/www/html/
209 chmod -R g+rx /var/www/html/
210 chmod -R g+rwx /var/www/html/
224 sudo chmod +x /var
225 systemctl restart apache2
230 sudo chmod +r -w -x /var/
231 sudo chmod /var/ +r -w -x
232 sudo chmod /var/ -r -w -x
235 chmod 755 /var/www/
236 chmod 644 /var/www/*
237 sudo chgrp www-data /var/www
238 sudo chmod 775 /var/www
239 sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www
240 chmod go-rwx /var/www
241 chmod go+x /var/www
242 chgrp -R www-data /var/www
243 chmod -R go-rwx /var/www
244 chmod -R g+rx /var/www
245 chmod -R g+rwx /var/www
246 chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/*
247 chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/
248 chmod -R og-r /var/www/html/
249 chown -R root:root /var/www/
250 chmod -R 777 /var/www
253 chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/
Is there any way I can reset my permissions so that I can run my server again? Just for development purposes!
Solution 1:
/var/
and /var/www/
are wrong.
sudo chmod 755 /var/
sudo chmod 755 /var/www/
(sudo required). To fix directories and files inside /var/www/
:
sudo find /var/www/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
sudo find /var/www/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
(sudo probably not required but there might be "root" owned files in those directories) Directories need the executable set, so 755, you might want to change it to 750, 775, 770 based on preferences; it lets group and others have more/less permissions). files do not, so 644, you might want to change it to 640, 664, 660 based on preferences; same reason).
That should be it.
In case you also want to reset the user and group setting (not needed if I look at the history):
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/