Ubuntu 14: Owner / Group Uploads (dummie question)

September 18, 2014 3.1k views
emocionrecreada
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emocionrecreada

Hello!

When I upload a file or directory to my directories with “ www-data www-data owner ” the file appears with root root owner, as you can see in this capture: http://i.imgur.com/PZO0h7d.png?1

How can i upload a file or directory with www-data www-data owner/group by sftp?

Thanks! :)

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  • valley_webuzo September 19, 2014

    It seems you have gained SSH to your server as “root” user while uploading the files.
    Hence the issue.

    Fix is to chown the files 

    chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/files

    Hope it helps

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emocionrecreada September 19, 2014

Yes! I use filezilla in sftp mode. Can i login in filezilla with www-data user? I don’t know his password.
Thanks for reply valley :))

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emocionrecreada September 19, 2014

I fix is to chown the files and now works perfect.

Thanks again valley_webuzo! ;)

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