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Version: 4.x

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Using Joomla! Administrator​

Go to Administrator → Global Configuration → Server.

Using the UNIX Shell​

Note The find command assumes that it should start from the current directory. To be safe, go to your public_html directory and specify a path as the first argument. Some shells, such as bash on Apple OS X, must have a path specified in the find command.

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
chmod 707 images
chmod 707 images/stories
chown apache:apache cache

Notes

  1. Test all third-party extensions after changing permissions.
  2. You may need to reset write permissions to install more extensions.