{"id":1453,"date":"2019-02-08T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2019\/02\/08\/1583479-how-to-fix-file-permissions-in-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T04:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T04:08:12","slug":"1583479-how-to-fix-file-permissions-in-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583479-how-to-fix-file-permissions-in-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Fix File Permissions in Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">Every file and folder within your hosting plan has a set of permissions<i>.<\/i> If these permissions are misconfigured, your website might not work as expected.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">To quickly fix all your file permissions, go to <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a> &rarr; Dashboard<\/b>, search for <b>Fix File Ownership<\/b> on the sidebar and click on it:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/5e5487e0-8ea4-4263-ad6a-d1ac55868733.jpg\" alt=\"The Fix File Ownership menu option\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Next, mark the checkbox to confirm that you want to set the files and folders to default permissions and click on <b>Execute<\/b>:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/4c1946c6-7f93-4622-ad40-088290e7388b.jpg\" alt=\"The Fix File Ownership section showing how to execute it\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Fixing file ownership will set the permissions to the followig values:<\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">For <b>files<\/b>, the default setting is <b>644<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">For <b>folders<\/b>, the default setting is <b>755<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"no-margin\">If you need to configure<b> specific permission settings<\/b> for files, you can easily do so using the <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/1583244-how-to-set-access-rights-for-files-and-folders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">File Manager<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setting file permissions to default via Hostinger\u2019s hPanel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583479-how-to-fix-file-permissions-in-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/1583479-como-corregir-los-permisos-de-archivos-en-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/1583479-comment-reparer-les-droits-des-fichiers-chez-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/1583479-cara-memperbaiki-kepemilikan-file-di-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/1583479-como-corrigir-as-permissoes-de-arquivos-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/1583479--------hosti\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8647,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions\/8647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}