Joomla: Folders that need to be writable
Published on Wednesday, Sep 3, 2014
Do you have a fresh Joomla installation? If yes then you should set the permission of these folders to be writable by your web server before you can install any Joomla extension. You can see the list of folders that need to be writable from this page: System > System Information > Directory Permissions, make sure the status of all these folders are writable.
- administrator/components
- administrator/language
- administrator/language/bg-BG
- administrator/language/da-DK
- administrator/language/nl-NL
- administrator/language/ja-JP
- administrator/language/hr-HR
- administrator/language/en-GB
- administrator/language/es-ES
- administrator/language/el-GR
- administrator/language/pt-BR
- administrator/language/de-DE
- administrator/language/overrides
- administrator/language/pl-PL
- administrator/language/ru-RU
- administrator/language/fr-FR
- administrator/language/it-IT
- administrator/manifests/files
- administrator/manifests/packages
- administrator/manifests/libraries
- administrator/modules
- administrator/templates
- components
- images
- images/jsn_is_thumbs
- images/content
- images/headers
- images/stories
- images/sampledata
- images/extensions
- images/cliparts
- images/banners
- language
- language/en-GB
- language/overrides
- libraries
- media
- modules
- plugins
- plugins/jsnimageshow
- plugins/search
- plugins/content
- plugins/extension
- plugins/system
- plugins/editors
- plugins/jsnpoweradmin
- plugins/editors-xtd
- plugins/quickicon
- plugins/user
- plugins/twofactorauth
- plugins/authentication
- plugins/captcha
- plugins/finder
- templates
- configuration.php
- cache
- administrator/cache
- logs
- tmp
Note: this folders are based on Joomla 3.3.3
and here is the CHMOD command to set the permission of these folders to be writable
chmod 777 administrator/components chmod 777 administrator/language chmod 777 administrator/language/bg-BG chmod 777 administrator/language/da-DK chmod 777 administrator/language/nl-NL chmod 777 administrator/language/ja-JP chmod 777 administrator/language/hr-HR chmod 777 administrator/language/en-GB chmod 777 administrator/language/es-ES chmod 777 administrator/language/el-GR chmod 777 administrator/language/pt-BR chmod 777 administrator/language/de-DE chmod 777 administrator/language/overrides chmod 777 administrator/language/pl-PL chmod 777 administrator/language/ru-RU chmod 777 administrator/language/fr-FR chmod 777 administrator/language/it-IT chmod 777 administrator/manifests/files chmod 777 administrator/manifests/packages chmod 777 administrator/manifests/libraries chmod 777 administrator/modules chmod 777 administrator/templates chmod 777 components chmod 777 images chmod 777 images/jsn_is_thumbs chmod 777 images/content chmod 777 images/headers chmod 777 images/stories chmod 777 images/sampledata chmod 777 images/extensions chmod 777 images/cliparts chmod 777 images/banners chmod 777 language chmod 777 language/en-GB chmod 777 language/overrides chmod 777 libraries chmod 777 media chmod 777 modules chmod 777 plugins chmod 777 plugins/jsnimageshow chmod 777 plugins/search chmod 777 plugins/content chmod 777 plugins/extension chmod 777 plugins/system chmod 777 plugins/editors chmod 777 plugins/jsnpoweradmin chmod 777 plugins/editors-xtd chmod 777 plugins/quickicon chmod 777 plugins/user chmod 777 plugins/twofactorauth chmod 777 plugins/authentication chmod 777 plugins/captcha chmod 777 plugins/finder chmod 777 templates chmod 777 configuration.php chmod 777 cache chmod 777 administrator/cache chmod 777 logs chmod 777 tmp
after you installed the joomla components don’t forget to set the folder permission to 0644
chown www-data:www-data -R * # Let apache be owner
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; # Change directory permissions rwxr-xr-x
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; # Change file permissions rw-r--r--
taken from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18352682/correct-file-permissions-for-wordpress