Setting up proper permissions in an AWS EC2 instance

This is how you fix and harden an EC2 instance but keep it write and read friendly

Step 1: Change owner of files. Step 2: chmod folder Step 3: chmod files Step 4: Move apache to Group Step 5: Give Group permissions to read and write

sudo chown -R ec2-user:apache /var/www/html
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html

sudo find /var/www/html/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
sudo find /var/www/html/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

sudo chgrp -R apache /var/www/html
sudo chmod -R g+rw /var/www/html
sudo chmod -R g+s /var/www/html
Then edit /wordpress-install/wp-config.php and define the fs_method

And in the configuration file (wp-config.php):

define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');

(https://stackoverflow.com/a/36979008/7481663)