WordPress file permissions on CentOS7 requiring sudo

Question

I'm running WordPress on my VPS with CentOS 7 LAMP stack.I've followed this guide to set permissions, i.e. I've run

sudo chown apache:apache -R * to ensure that my wordpress directory is owned by apache:apache.

I've also set WordPress directory and file permissions with these commands:

find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

(I had to prefix the above commands with sudo)

Normally I manage the server by logging in through SSH using myuser, where myuser belongs to the apache group and the wheel group.

I have 3 problems:

1. Any file CRUD command in the WordPress directory still requires me to prefix the command with sudo, or else I get a permission error. Since myuser belongs to apache and apache owns the directory, I'm confused as to why I still need to prefix the commands with sudo.
2. Similar to problem 1, any git command such as a git pull requires me to prefix the command with sudo or else I get a permission error.
3. When I try to automatically update theme files from my WordPress dashboard web interface, I get permission errors. Interestingly, I'm able to install/update plugins via the WordPress dashboard without any permissions errors.

Any ideas on what I'm missing?

Answer 1

Look at:What does mode_t 0644 mean?

644 means:
 * (owning) User: read & write
 * Group: read
 * Other: read

CRUD is a write command, so you're not allowed to do that. Either you change to 664 or keep using sudo. Basically any writing procedure on the file system would not be allowed without sudo since your user is not the owner (event though he is in the group).