Why doesn't umask work?

Question

Debian

There is a www directory
It has a lot of subfolders I install it
on www or even on some subfolder
umask 0022
I upload a file, I get permissions
600

Why?
Or how to make all newly created / uploaded folders have 755 and files 644?

Answer 1

The command umaskallows you to override the mask within the current session.
umask can be set, for example, in ~/.profileand ~/.bashrc
Look in the config for the ability to configure umask