I’m running Ubuntu 14.04 (LEMP) I need proper access for both “www-data” and “example” user (myself).
I used this command
chown -R example:www-data /var/www/html
Now I can upload via sftp but my homepage doesn’t work properly because of a permission error for some javascript file
As a temporary solution I just switch back and forth between these 2 commands
to upload via sftp: chown -R example /var/www/html
and then to have my homepage running properly again: chown -R www-data /var/www/html
How can I get this to work without changing permissions all the time?
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@Marcedwin I solved this a while ago
The solution is to add your user “demo” to the group www-data (since www-data is a group) below replace demo with your username
set permissions for user group www-data
followed by
Works fine for me