Original article: http://blog.david-jensen.com/wordpress-amazon-ec2-apache-permissions-wordpress/
Seems pretty good... see below.
sudo su chown -R apache:apache /vol/html
I then set permissions to what the hardening WordPress guide recommends for my html root as all my WordPress files are there as I am running MultiSite with multiple domains.
find /vol/html/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find /vol/html/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
As apache doesn’t have a login I feel this is worth the risk though there is probably a better way to do this. I then added ec2-user to the apache group and changed the permissions of the wp-content folder to have group write permission 775.
useradd -G apache ec2-user sudo chmod -R 775 /vol/html/wp-content
