Written by Per Ploug Hansen umbraco 4.0Reference
An overview of all system folders and important files in a default umbraco installation.
Also includes an overview of what files need modify permissions.
To ensure a stable and smoothly running umbraco installation,
these permissions need to be set correct
These permissions should be set before or during the insallation
of umbraco. The user with the permissions set are the user used by
the Application Pool used by the IIS website (usually Network
Service). If in doubt, ask your server admin / hosting company
| File / folder |
Permission |
Comment |
| /Web.config |
Modify / Full control |
Only needed for setting database and version Information during
installation. So can be set to read-only afterwards for enhanced
security
|
| /Bin |
Modify / Full control |
Needed for installing packages, if no packages are installed,
this can be set to read accees only
|
| /Config |
Modify / Full control |
Only needed for setting database and version Information during
installation. So can be set to read-only afterwards for enhanced
security
|
| /Css |
Modify / Full control |
Should always have modify rights as the folder and it's files
are used for css files
|
| /Data |
Modify / Full control |
Should always have modify rights as the folder and it's files
are used for cache and storage
|
| /Masterpages |
Modify / Full control |
Should always have modify rights as the folder and it's files
are used for template files
|
| /Scripts |
Modify / Full control |
Should always have modify rights as the folder and it's files
are used for script files
|
| /Umbraco |
Modify / Full control |
For upgrades and package installation, it should have modify
rights, but can be set to read-only afterwards
|
| /Umbraco_client |
Modify / Full control |
For upgrades and package installation, it should have modify
rights, but can be set to read-only afterwards
|
| /UserControls |
Modify / Full control |
Modify rights are needed for installing packages
|
| /Xslt |
Modify / Full control |
Should always have modify rights as the folder and it's files
are used for macro files
|