# Ghost image folder permissions

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/ghost-image-folder-permissions/3198>\
**Category:** Developer help\
**Created:** [September 20, 2018, 12:34pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/ghost-image-folder-permissions/3198 "2018-09-20T12:34:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ronaldlangeveld](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/ronaldlangeveld/32/41056_2.png) [@ronaldlangeveld](https://forum.ghost.org/u/ronaldlangeveld)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 12:34pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/ghost-image-folder-permissions/3198/1 "2018-09-20T12:34:53Z")

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So after upgrading my VPS to Ubuntu 18LTS this morning, my Ghost Installation practically stop working.

I backed up my image folder and so forth and reinstalled ghost and restored the DB… Okay, cool.

Now I have my blog pretty much back to the state it was before it broke… however, as I expected, ghost can’t write into the /ghost/content/images folder as I literally copied it directly into /content.

I’m getting:

> EACCES: permission denied, open ‘/var/www/ghost/content/images/2018/09/image.jpg’

What’s the correct permissions for Ghost to be able to write into this folder?

TIA

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**Author:** ![Hannah](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/hannah/32/22_2.png) [@Hannah](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Hannah)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 12:38pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/ghost-image-folder-permissions/3198/2 "2018-09-20T12:38:56Z")

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Have you tried running `ghost doctor`? It will prompt you if any permissions are wrong with the exact commands to fix it 🙂

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**Author:** ![ronaldlangeveld](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/ronaldlangeveld/32/41056_2.png) [@ronaldlangeveld](https://forum.ghost.org/u/ronaldlangeveld)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 12:41pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/ghost-image-folder-permissions/3198/3 "2018-09-20T12:41:29Z")

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Ah thanks so much!  
It told me to use

> sudo chown -R ghost:ghost ./content

worked perfectly!

Thank you very much!

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**Author:** ![Hannah](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/hannah/32/22_2.png) [@Hannah](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Hannah)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/ghost-image-folder-permissions/3198/4 "2018-09-20T12:42:37Z")

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Awesome 😄

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/2X/b/ba9ce5100b8bb264586f4f572545596b2ce3f081.png) [@system](https://forum.ghost.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/ghost-image-folder-permissions/3198/5 "2018-10-04T12:42:48Z")

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