Question

I got a folder in my server where i need to write data dynamically, and the data should be also visile to the viewers, though they will not be served directly.
I will add the data from those file by PHP and will server them,
What should be the permission for this folder ?
If i use anything other than 777 it shows an ERROR on my local machine [i’m root there]

Answer 1

The directory needs to be owned (or writable and readable) by the user under which Apache runs. The user is likely to be something like apache or www-data or httpd. Find out the apache user and then set ownership:

chown -R apacheuser:apacheuser /path/to/your/directory
chmod 700 /path/to/your/directory