Many nginx tutorials say to make ownership of /var/www belong to www-data:www-data but tutorials on vsftpd say to make ownership that of the user you’re using to login via FTP.
So which is the best way to give an FTP user to read/write in /var/www?
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If it’s the best way it’s arguable, but if I remember it right I added my ftp users to the www-data group, created a folder for the user in the /var/www/ and gave him its ownership, setting permissions accordingly.
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