I have installed SilverStripe 4.0.3 on a webserver and at the end of the installation this message is displayed:
"After the install, the assets directory is the only directory that needs write access."
When I try to search for information on what kind of file permissions I should set manually (if any), I can't find anything.
This is how the permissions look like after the installation:
drwxrwxr-x 3 myuser myuser 4096 Feb 11 21:56 assets
-rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser myuser 907 Feb 11 21:49 composer.json
-rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser www-data 133925 Feb 11 21:49 composer.lock
-rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser myuser 1406 Feb 5 05:15 favicon.ico
-rwxrwxr-x 1 myuser www-data 535 Feb 11 21:53 index.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser www-data 1221 Feb 11 21:49 install-frameworkmissing.html
drwxrwxr-x 4 myuser myuser 4096 Feb 11 21:49 mysite
-rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser myuser 854 Feb 5 05:15 phpcs.xml.dist
-rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser myuser 1804 Feb 5 05:15 README.md
drwxrwsr-x 3 myuser www-data 4096 Feb 11 21:49 resources
drwxrwsr-x 3 myuser www-data 4096 Feb 11 21:49 themes
drwxrwsr-x 25 myuser www-data 4096 Feb 11 21:49 vendor
-rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser www-data 585 Feb 11 21:49 web.config
For example, is the file permissions on the "resources" folder wrong here?
Those permissions look fine. The installer tells you it needs those permissions just in case something went wrong when setting the permissions on the assets folder.
The message states it's the only directory that needs to be writable. It does not mean other folders shouldn't be writable.