YahnisElsts
What file permissions are best practice?
I'm deploying a plugin with zips created on a linux box [.zip in linux preserves permissions]. What are the best permission settings to set before I zip? I got "Update failed: The update cannot be installed because we will be unable to copy some files. This is usually due to inconsistent file permissions."
I'm not very familiar with this aspect of the installation process, but I would guess that the permissions in the .zip file do not matter. Looking at the _unzip_file_ziparchive() and _unzip_file_pclzip() functions in WordPress core, it appears that they just set the permissions of all extracted files to the FS_CHMOD_FILE constant . The code doesn't look at the permissions stored in the .zip file.
In this case, it's more likely that the target site has a permissions issue. Maybe some wp-content subdirectories don't have the right permissions? Or maybe PHP is running under the wrong user account?
In this case, it's more likely that the target site has a permissions issue. <-- Correct. Thanks Yahnis.