By keoki
I am running the LEMP Stack on Ubuntu 14.04
I am always getting permission denied whenever my php file is trying to save or upload something. If I chmod the folder to 777 it works but I don’t want to change it to 777. I checked the owner of all the files in my application . It is root / root (owner / group ).
I have the exact same project on a different server with permissions set as 0755 and the owner as 501 / 500 and the application works flawlessly. But I don’t know that the 501 / 500 stands for.
Also I just checked the following for my application:
/usr/share/nginx/html/example1/app/webroot script owner : root script getmyuid : 0 script getmygid : 0
How come the script owner is root and I still get permission denied ?
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If you are running apache on Ubuntu 14.04 you want to invoke it as such
sudo chown -Rf www-data:www-data </var/www/html/*
can u help me?? i have same problem but i follow this tutorial but it does not bring results.
Hi , I had the same issue …I couldn’t upload anything from my admin panel so I changed the permission on the media folder and gave all users full permission(to media folder). I achieved that by executing this on my media folder… sudo chmod -R a+rwx /media (path to your media folder) restarted everything then it worked . You can try it.
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