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Create settings.php and the files directory Drupal 8 - To Reinstall Site
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drupal8-settings-reinstall.md

Drupal Important Permission Settings Pre-Install and Post-Install.

Pre-Install or Already Installed but Dumping Database to Reinstall

Create settings.php and the files directory for install.

chmod 644 sites/default/settings.php
chmod -r 755 sites/default
chmod 755 sites/default/files

To Reinstall: Do above steps and Goto phpmyadmin web application and click on databses. Select the database from the prior install, and click on DROP.

After Install Set Security To

chmod 555 sites/default 
chmod 444 sites/default/settings.php
File Section Octal Unix Permissions
Core modules folders 750 RWXR-X---
Core modules files 640 RW-R-----
Core themes folders 750 RWXR-X---
Core themes files 640 RW-R-----
Contrib modules folders 750 RWXR-X---
Contrib modules files 640 RW-R-----
Contrib themes folders 750 RWXR-X---
Contrib themes files 640 RW-R-----
Files folders 770 RWXRWX---
Files files 660 RW-RW----
Temporary folder 770 RWXRWX---
Settings file 440 R--R-----
Settings folder 750 RWXR-X---

Important also to make sure that in the sites/default/files directory that you set a group to be the apache user that is used to access the files.

chgrp -Rv www-data sites/default/files

Then

chmod 2775 sites/default/files

Where the 2 in 2775 says to preserve the group id when creating new files etc.

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