Joomla File Permissions
From Birnam Designs Wiki
To manually set Joomla file permissions (outdated):
chmod -R 755 administrator/backups/ chmod -R 755 administrator/components/ chmod -R 755 administrator/modules/ chmod -R 755 administrator/templates/ chmod -R 755 cache/ chmod -R 755 components/ chmod -R 755 images/ chmod -R 755 images/banners/ chmod -R 755 images/stories/ chmod -R 755 language/ chmod -R 755 mambots/ chmod -R 755 mambots/content/ chmod -R 755 mambots/search/ chmod -R 755 media/ chmod -R 755 modules/ chmod -R 755 templates/