ownership of the directories to the Apache web user

September 25, 2014 3.1k views
andy765364
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Hello,

I have magento multi webstore configuration on digital ocean in a single droplet and I want to change ownership/group of a directory and also want to know about user creation by which I can manage one more user for that directory with detail of how to change ownership/group of complete content of the directory.

thanks in advance..

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jschwenn February 15, 2016

Hey there,

Here is a tutorial that reviews Linux permissions and ownership. The basic command you are looking for would be: 

  • chown -R user:group /var/www/html/folder

You want to make sure that the files are still readable by the web server so that the web site still can be served.

Happy coding,

Jon Schwenn
Platform Support Specialist
DigitalOcean

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