helmo / drupal-permissions

A bash script to help set Drupal permission correctly. Please do not use blindly, read the code first.

Drupal Permissions

A bash script to help set Drupal permission correctly. Please do not use blindly, read the code first. Based from script found on Drupal.org.

This script is used to fix permissions of a Drupal installation you need to provide the following arguments:

1. Path to your Drupal installation.
2. Username of the user that you want to give files/directories ownership.
3. HTTPD group name (defaults to www-data for Apache).

Usage:

(sudo) bash drupal-permissions.sh --drupal_path=PATH --drupal_user=USER --httpd_group=GROUP

Example:

(sudo) bash drupal-permissions.sh --drupal_path=/usr/local/apache2/htdocs --drupal_user=john --httpd_group=www-data