ahh..

I’m sure it had to do with me trying to create a wordpress user that was jailed to the wordpress directory, and then deciding to delete the user later when I realized I needed a home directory for keys.

I can’t recreate the exact sequence of events since its spread across users, but I think it went something like this :

sudo adduser --home /srv/users/serverpilot/apps/wordpress wpsys
mkhomedir_helper wpsys
#that didn't seem to work, so I did this:
usermod -m -d /home/wpsys wpsys
#and then later decided I didn't need the user
userdel -r wpsys

my suspicion is that I screwed up the sequence and deleted the original home directory which was the wordpress directory when I deleted the user. It shouldn’t have done that since I thought I moved the user’s home directory to /home/wpsys but apparently it either deleted both the original directory and the last one, or I deleted the user before the new home directory was assigned.

good thing I had a recent digital ocean backup. also, not really a big deal since I can just download and install wordpress separately, but I wanted to make sure it wasn’t something serverpilot did when it didn’t like some of the customizations I did.

Also - the server’s just being used for staging at the moment …