Xenforo xenforo theme; best way to deal with permissions?

Hey There,

after I have successfully installed xenforo & centminmod,
I proceed to install a new theme for my forum.

I have now the problem with the permissions.


Is there an easy, convenient way to do that?


I searched the forum and did not find a general answer to this;
I mean, what commands to type in, or what chmod value exactly do I have to assign to the folders (?)

Is nginx the webserver user? (do I have to assign ownership to nginx:nginx?)

(btw: after installing the theme, do the permissions must stay like that,
or can I switch them back / make the folders more safe again?)


Thank you

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Hi George,

I have found another good post from you, from 2020:
https://community.centminmod.com/threads/xf-2-2-2-cannot-install-style.20812/

"
First backup your existing permissions for everything under /public with command below where yourdomain.com is your domain name
Code (Text):

Code:

getfacl -R -L --absolute-names /home/nginx/domains/yourdomain.com/public > /home/nginx/domains/yourdomain.com/backup/backup-permissions-$(date +"%d%m%y-%H%M%S").acl

if you need to restore this backed up permissions use
Code (Text):

Code:

setfacl --restore=backup-/home/nginx/domains/yourdomain.com/backup/backup-permissions-XXXXXX-XXXXXX.acl

where XXXXXX-XXXXXX is the day-month-year-hr-min-sec timestamp from the above backup command

Then chown user and group permissions recursively for all directories and files below /public would take care of ownership of files
Code (Text):

Code:

chown -R nginx:nginx /home/nginx/domains/yourdomain.com/public

That should take care of the user/group permissions but you still need properly permissions for directory and files
"

Is this still valid?

I think this is a good way to save old permissions,
and then change to new ones.

Thanks