Magento Migration – Permissions
When you move a Magento site from one hosting server to another you may find that your folder/file permissions do not move across with them. This can cause issues such as images not uploading and the Magento Connect Downloader not working. Very annoying – especially if you’re not expecting it. Also those of you who use Plesk as your hosting platform – when you use the backup and restore manager – the same issue will occur – no folder/file permissions.
Now this problem is a tricky one to solve. There are so many files that you cannot possibly go in and reset them all to their appropriate values. I’ve found that the best trick is to either user ssh access to reset your file permissions or simply to use an FTP client like Filezilla to recursively change them back.
The easiest way to do it – though not really the safest – is to set all permissions to 775. This will give full access to all files and folders for any scripts running on the machine. A lot of people will say this is giving away too much – however if you want to take the time out and go into each folder to set the permissions back you can do – I find it easier to do the whole lot and then maybe go back and set a few which are never used back to 644.
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