Question

I’m trying to get my php test upload script to work and was wondering what the command would be to allow files to be uploaded in ubuntu server in the var/www/image directory

Answer 1

cd /var/www/image

For file like image you don’t need execution permission :

sudo chmod 664 *

If you have directories inside image and you want to apply permission :

sudo find . -type d -exec chmod 755 "{}" \;

This will recursively search your directory and chmod 755 all directories only.

Similarly, the following will chmod all files only (and ignore the directories):

sudo find . -type f -exec chmod 644 "{}" \;

File name with space case (thanks to Nicklas B)

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644