How does the UNIX-filesystem permissions interact with TYPO3?
The answer is simple: TYPO3 runs as the user, PHP "runs" as. This could depend on the httpd.conf file of Apache. Default is "nobody" as far as I know. On Debian installations it is "www-data".
The main thing is, that TYPO3 must be able to write to certain folders in order for the file-administration to work. This means that after installation of TYPO3, you should alter the user of the scripts and folders, probably with the "chown" command.
If you have access to the webserver through FTP, you might be uploading scripts with yourself as user. These scripts might be executable by Apache as PHP-scripts but when the scripts need to write to eg. the upload-folder, this folder might be owned by "you" and thereby TYPO3 does not work. Therefore; the folders TYPO3 need write-access to must be writeable by the Apache-user.
Folders that requires write access are fileadmin/* and uploads/* for the frontend and typo3temp/ for both frontend and backend. Furthermore for extensions directories typo3/ext/ and typo3conf/ and sub directories must be writeable for PHP as well.
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