By titanium
Hi guys, as the title say, i want to give new user SFTP access to folder so he/she can install wordpress alone without root and without ssh access, and be able to edit www-data files, and also i want him to be jailed only in the folder that i will specify so he cant snoop around my server.
i tried so much tutorials from google, but in the end user cant edit files created by wordpress itself or wordpress cant install plugins, when i set the file to be owned by the user wordpress cant install plugins, if i make www-data to own the files the user cant edit them. Im going nuts here if someone has step by step tutorial on what should i do please help me.
here is my sshd.config file
Match User user1
AllowTcpForwarding no
X11Forwarding no
ChrootDirectory %h
ForceCommand internal-sftp
my apache setup for the new subdomain is working.
Thanks in advance guys
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Hi @titanium
I would probably recommend that instead of running the site as www-data, you should run the site as that user.
That way, user1 has full control over their home directory - only accessibly thru SFTP, since you’ve added the ForceCommand internal-sftp.
Then you setup Nginx to point to user1 home directory - and setup the PHP-FPM pool to being run as UID user1 and GID user1.
i forgot to mention that i use apache2, and from all day testing i found out that i can edit the files in filezilla but through winscp i get (Upload of file … was successful, but error occurred while setting the permissions and/or timestamp) what is that? i thought that winscp is best for this kind of things. How can i implement your comment in apache2?
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