Movable Type Knowledge Base: My PHP Output Files Need To Be Executable

Question

My webserver requires that the permissions on my .php files be set to 755, but the files Movable Type generates have permissions set to 666.

Answer

The permissions on files created by Movable Type are determined by the HTMLPerms configuration default, which is 666. You can override this default in mt-config.cgi¹:

# HTMLPerms 0777

If you uncomment this setting² in the file, default permissions for all files created by the system will then be set to 777.

Note that the setting for HTMLPerms will be adjusted by the the HTMLUmask setting in mt-config.cgi. The default for HTMLUmask is 0111, so you should take this into consideration when setting HTMLPerms.

For example, if you have set HTMLPerms to 0777, you should set HTMLUmask to 0022, so that all files created by the system will have permissions of 0755.

¹ In versions prior to 3.2, the configuration file is named mt.cfg.

² To uncomment a setting means to remove the # from the beginning of the line where it appears.

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