[wp-hackers] Backup plugin and writability

[David House]

On 08/01/06, Elliotte Harold <elharo at metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
> I'm very nervous about making directories world writable just so
> WordPress can muck with them.

They don't need to be world-writeable, just writeable by the web
server. chgrp them to your Apache group, then chmod -R g+w wp-content.

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