[SOLVED] Assigning default permissions

kb2tfa · 02-18-2016, 08:54 PM

I'm running Ubuntu 14 LTS with nginx. I have a projects folder that I am working in. I am working in this folder /var/www/html/somedomain.com/projects as root because my user account has no access. This directory is chown to www-data:www-data because there is a wordpress site there, and wordpress gets cranky with you try to upgrade or install things and wordpress is not permissible. The projects folder is not wordpress, but the creation of files are owned by root, and I would like them to be www-data so I don't have to keep running chown.

yancek · 02-20-2016, 02:22 PM

Is your normal user part of the www-data group?

kb2tfa · 02-20-2016, 04:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yancek

Is your normal user part of the www-data group?

No it's not.

yancek · 02-21-2016, 08:37 AM

If your projects folder is owned by root have you tried to change it to www-data? Simple enough to change back if it doesn't help. I've not used wordpress or nginx but on an Apache server you should be able to have sub-directories owned by a user.

kb2tfa · 02-21-2016, 06:22 PM

Here's what I've done. sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/*

I also did sudo usermod -aG www-data myusername

I then groups myusername, and I get the following: myusername sudo www-data

I try from user account: touch /var/www/html/myfolder/README This returns a "permission denied" error.

www-data is not a log in account, but wordpress can generate files, however from the commandline, I have to be root or sudo.

This is where permissions get me all screwed up.

fmattheus · 02-22-2016, 08:37 AM

After running "usermod -aG www-data myusername" you need to login again before your current session is in the group. Then you should be able to touch /var/www/html/myfolder/README provided it has group write permissions.

If that didn't work, post the results of

Code:

namei -lx /var/www/html/myfolder/README

kb2tfa · 02-22-2016, 08:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fmattheus

After running "usermod -aG www-data myusername" you need to login again before your current session is in the group. Then you should be able to touch /var/www/html/myfolder/README provided it has group write permissions.

If that didn't work, post the results of

Code:

namei -lx /var/www/html/myfolder/README

from user executed touch /var/www/html/README

Code:

Drwxr-xr-x root     root     /
drwxr-xr-x root     root     var
drwxr-xr-x www-data www-data www
drwxr-xr-x www-data www-data html
README - No such file or directory

fmattheus · 02-23-2016, 01:25 AM

Ok, so you need to set the group permissions of everything in /var/www to be writeable.
This command should do that.

Code:

chmod -R g+w /var/www

kb2tfa · 03-02-2016, 06:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fmattheus

Ok, so you need to set the group permissions of everything in /var/www to be writeable.
This command should do that.

Code:

chmod -R g+w /var/www

that did it. thank you.