Every time after starting a new fresh install of Drupal in my Linux box I always have to set some permissions to the hierarchy structure to make it work properly.

As I always need to hunt the commands over again, I’ve decided to put everything in one place so I can easily remember.

# Include your user in www-data group

# This command needs to be run only once

# If your user already exists you may instead need use

# sudo usermod -a -G www-data brunops

useradd -G www-data brunops

# File User/Group owners

sudo chown -R brunops:www-data /path/to/folder --preserve-root

# Drupal file permissions

# Execution perm for files

sudo find /path/to/folder -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sudo chmod 644 --preserve-root

# Execution perm for folders

sudo find /path/to/folder -type d -print0 | xargs -0 sudo chmod 755 --preserve-root

Latest version of the code can be checked in my Gist.