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Permissions - sFTP v Wordpress
- Posted January 5, 2014
Hey guys,
I’m confused by the ownership of the folders…
/var/www/sitex
I’ve ran:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/sitex/web
… and Wordpress works fine. I can’t SFTP to the folder though!
I’ve a User “ABC” who is a member of the www-data group.
How do I resolve this? I want WP to work as it currently does but be able to sFTP files!
Thanks in advance :)
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Add yourself to the www-data: <br><pre>sudo usermod -a -G www-data youruser</pre> <br>Then, recursively grant group write permissions to the /var/www/sitex directory: <br><pre>sudo chmod -R g+w /var/www/sitex</pre>
Kamal Nasser, Thank u, that’s solve my problems! <br> <br>
Kamal, thanks, this helps alot, WP is now able to update/install plugins natively etc, my user is able to edit files inside /var/www/sitex, but I am getting this error in WinSCP when editing files: <br> <br>Upload of file … was successful, but error occurred while setting the permissions and/or timestamp. <br> <br>http://is.gd/resVqI <br> <br>How could I fix this last bit? Thanks!