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

[Martin Kelly]

Well, doing chmod o+rwx is the easiest, but so insecure I've tried to 
avoid it. I have added myself to group www-data, but the problem with 
that is when I create files as my user it defaults to being owned by 
martin, not www-data and thus apache can't access them (without running 
a tedious chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www at least).

Michael Miller wrote:
> 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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