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What user does the web server run as on our droplets? Is it www-data?
- Posted on November 18, 2014
Asked by lgebman
What user does the web server run as on our droplets? Is it www-data?
Thanks in advance for your help!
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On Ubuntu, both the Nginx and Apache web servers run as the
www-datauser. On CentOS, Apache runs asapachewhile Nginx runs asnginx