Is WordPress failing to upload, install, or update your plugins, themes, or media files? It’s possible that your directory and file permissions are not set correctly.
chown
The chown command allows you to change user and group ownership for files and directories.
Recursively change user and group ownership of all directories and files to www-data:www-data, from the current directory.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data . chmod
The chmod command changes the access permissions for files and directories.
Recursively change all directory and file permissions from the current directory.
sudo . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
sudo . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; wordmove
If you are updating WordPress via wordmove, you may wish to update all directory and file permissions automatically by setting rsync_options in your movefile.yml
ssh:
host: YOUR_HOST
rsync_options: '-og --chown=www-data:www-data --no-perms --chmod=ugo=rwX'