I have LEMP stack setup on Ubuntu and installed WordPress.
I followed tutorial to create new user beside root
and been using for setting up the server. Now I’m trying to upload some files through SFTP using FileZilla and keep getting permission denied error.
My current permission is set to
drwxr-xr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Dec 24 00:47 /var/www/html
I tried
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www
on your terminal.sudo usermod -a -G www-data username
.But still getting the permission error.
I know my new user can write with sudo
command in terminal but on FileZilla it does not use sudo
command and gives permission denied error.
Using root
account will solve the issue but I want to know secure way to do this with new user.
How do I make new user to be able to upload files via SFTP? Is it possible? It not what is the others ways to do this?
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If you use serverpilot - then use this command below: sudo chown -R serverpilot:serverpilot /srv/users/serverpilot/apps replace serverpilot in the command above with the name of the system user.
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https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/why-doesn-t-chown-r-root-www-data-work-on-my-wordpress-installation