[Eug-lug] Correct Apache User and Group for easy editing

[Michael Miller]

You could add your self to what ever group apache belongs too.  You
could also chmod o+rwx as well.

Mike Miller

On 8/25/06, Martin Kelly <aomighty at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been having a problem with my Apache setup in that I'm not sure
> what user I should run it under. The default is www-data, and I could
> just add myself to the www-data group and be able to edit it under my
> user (martin). The problem with that is that when I create files with my
> normal user, they will be owned by martin and thus inaccessible to
> Apache. I could just edit the files with the www-data user, but that is
> annoying in terms of syncing together various files (.vimrc and such)
> between /home/martin and /home/www-data.
>
> I attempted to have Apache run under the user martin by adding the
> following in my Apache config:
>
> User martin
> Group martin
>
> but when I try to have a script create a directory, for example, it
> returns "Permission Denied." This is Apache 2.0.55.
>
> Does anybody have a good solution for this? For example, is there a way
> to make all files created by me in /var/www owned by www-data instead?
>
> Thanks all.
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