Setting the Correct File Owner

[humptydumpty]

The doc page says that for Apache+PHP apps, permissions should be "www-data.www-data". Is that a typo? If not, how do I make the change?

What should the owner be for:

• folders
• subfolders
• files
• htaccess
• index.php

Thanks!

[murgero]

@humptydumpty chown -R www-data:www-data /app/data/public will make the whole public folder owned by apache.

Change /app/data/public to a file or folder of choice.

[micmc]

@humptydumpty said in Setting the Correct File Owner:

"www-data.www-data". Is that a typo?

A typo with the separator which should be : and not a . as in

www-data:www-data

@murgero has provided the right command here above.

[nebulon]

Thanks for letting us know about that typo. I have fixed it now in the docs.

[humptydumpty]

@nebulon @micmc @murgero Thanks guys. I'm used to cPanel and setting file permissions with chmod but don't know what those numbers translate to in Cloudron. So www-data for all public facing files and folders is ok?

[nebulon]

@humptydumpty yes that is correct

[micmc]

@humptydumpty said in Setting the Correct File Owner:

Thanks guys. I'm used to cPanel

Now welcome to HIGH-CLASS simplified servers operations, through Cloudron web administrators' secret society

[murgero]

@micmc chanting one of us! one of us!

[girish]

FWIW, '.' or ':' works as separator between user and group in chown. Though ':' is recommended nowadays since it allows a '.' in the username.

[micmc]

@girish Useful info mate!