: /var and /var/www permissions The mode for both these directories is 755. I'd like to restrict permissions to 754. But if I do so, I'm thinking the apache www-data instance won't be able to

@Nimeshi995

Do not change the chmod for /varas this should remain default.

Apache runs on the usergroup www-data so /var/www should have the owner has www-data and not root, if this is the case then 754 is absolutely fine.

This may help:

chown www-data:www-data /var/www
chmod -R 754 /var/www


Normally this is set-up for you if you used an installer such as apt-get when installing Apache or nginx.

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