website_files_ownership

# This is targetted towards people using a user for each website.

# Give back its own files to your user
chown -R user:user ~user/public_html

# Copy user permissions to group permissions
chmod -R g=u ~user/public_html

# Disallow other users from everything on your files
chmod -R o-rwx ~user/public_html

# Add apache2 to your user's group
usermod -a -G user www-data

# check this is applied correctly
groups www-data

# Restart apache2
service apache2 restart

## If you need to revert a usermod
deluser user group

### Enjoy not needing to chmod again ;)