www-data permissions on /var/www
thufir
hawat.thufir at gmail.com
Mon Nov 12 01:06:28 UTC 2012
My /var/www directory permissions are:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 11 15:34 www/
While running the install script for FUDForum, I get this message:
Directory "/var/www/" exists, but the installation script is unable to
write to the directory. Please grant read/write permissions to the web-
server user (www-data/www-data)
The web-server user is www-data? I tried changing permissions for the /
var/www folder to add group permissions with chmod g+w /var/www but was
insuficient.
thufir at dur:~$ cat /etc/passwd | grep www
www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/bin/sh
thufir at dur:~$
thufir at dur:~$ cat /etc/group | grep www
www-data:x:33:
thufir at dur:~$
maybe www-data is in the wrong group? Or, just go ahead and give
everyone rw permissions to /var/www ?
I'm not well versed in apache.
thanks,
Thufir
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