How to undo or set back to default chmod -R 755?

Question

What I was trying to do is installing "wordpress" in my localhost on (ubuntu 14.04) i.e my path for localhost is " home/deepak/php "

Now what i did is this in terminal:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /home/deepak/php/
sudo chmod -R 755 /home/deepak/php/              

And now I can't create any folder or file in /home/deepak/php/

PLEASE NOTE:All I want now is to undo and set back to earlier as it was, both of above the command 1 & command 2, I don't care any wordpress for now. just help me in undoing those 2 commands.

Solution

All of what you have is just change ownership of that directory back to your user.

sudo chown -R username:username /home/deepak/php/

So in your caser username=deep

sudo chown -R deep:deep /home/deepak/php/

And for the command2

sudo chmod -R 755 /home/deepak/php/     

this permission will be just fine for your now, but you probably change some permissions later if you face some problems

Comments

[terdon]

@Maythux actually, don't bother. The OP has crossposted this on U&L and there's already an answer there. Let's just close this one.

[deepak yadav]

That's it? my username is deep. that means sudo chown -R deep:deep /home/deepak/php will do?

[deepak yadav]

yeah y not your are not suffering because of that right?

[terdon]

@deepakyadav cross-posting is not allowed on the Stack Exchange network. It leads to duplicated effort which is precisely what just happened here. Please choose one site and only ask there. So, please accept one of the answers, either here or on U&L and then delete your other question.

[deepak yadav]

so how do i delete question on other site. this site is more relevant to me.

[Maythux]

@deepakyadav You are welcome, if it helps you then consider to mark as answer. take a look to askubuntu.com/tour

[terdon]

@deepakyadav I'll close the other one then. Please don't do this again, as you see it leads to complications. I voted to close this one since your other Q already had an answer. If you prefer to keep this one, I will close the other.

[deepak yadav]

@terdon ok, close the other one i'm only on askubuntu, i landed up there unknowingly. thanks for your help to.