I am trying to make TimThumb work on my domain. After having tried and tested every step on this troubleshooting guide, it finally came down to folder permissions. The thumbnail cache is owned by my accountname
, while the processes trying to access the folder (i.e. WordPress) are nobody
. The solution suggested by the author of the linked post is to chown
the folder to nobody.
What are the implications of this? Will it affect how WordPress works or my FTP?