you many need write access to the files when you setup your wordpress website.
chown www-data:www-data -R * # Let Apache be owner
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; # Change directory permissions rwxr-xr-x
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; # Change file permissions rw-r--r--
Later you should more tight the access rights. And the wp-content must be writable by www-data too.
chown <username>:<username> -R * # Let your useraccount be owner
chown www-data:www-data wp-content # Let apache be owner of wp-content
Take a look for more details: https://wordpress.org/support/article/hardening-wordpress/
