<p>This article will help you set permissions properly for Craft CMS installs:</p>

<p><a href="https://nystudio107.com/blog/hardening-craft-cms-permissions" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Hardening Craft CMS Permissions</a></p>

<p>It leverages <a href="https://github.com/nystudio107/craft-scripts" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Craft-Scripts</a> to do the heavy lifting.</p>

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2017-04-19T13:34:25.140Z
2017-04-19T13:34:25.140Z
andrew.welch
<p>I can't for the life of me figure out what's going on. When assets are added, they upload fine but when I add them to entries or try to view them in the browser, they won't display and show a 403 Forbidden page instead. 
Help! :)</p>

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2015-05-06T14:42:37.260Z
Complete shot in the dark but could it be a permissions problem where the assets dir were created by a different user/group than what the system is trying to access them under?

For example, the dir was created by "apache", but the system (craft) was created by "admin" each having different user group permissions...
Damon
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2015-05-07T00:24:03.723Z
Thanks @Damon! I managed to get it working, and that was the problem.
Caleb Durham
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403 Forbidden Assets
# 403 Forbidden Assets

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-05-05)

I can't for the life of me figure out what's going on. When assets are added, they upload fine but when I add them to entries or try to view them in the browser, they won't display and show a 403 Forbidden page instead.
Help! :)

**Tags:** assets, image, error
> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Complete shot in the dark but could it be a permissions problem where the assets dir were created by a different user/group than what the system is trying to access them under?  For example, the dir was created by "apache", but the system (craft) was created by "admin" each having different user group permissions...  
> **username_0**: Thanks @Damon! I managed to get it working, and that was the problem.  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2017-04-19. Score: 3

This article will help you set permissions properly for Craft CMS installs:

[Hardening Craft CMS Permissions](https://nystudio107.com/blog/hardening-craft-cms-permissions)

It leverages [Craft-Scripts](https://github.com/nystudio107/craft-scripts) to do the heavy lifting.


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