By Andrew
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS LEMP Stack
I’m keeping my VPS simple with the LEMP stack, and I’m running my sites out of my user directory: /home/user1/domain1.com/public
In order to allow WordPress to upload & edit files, I find I have to assign www-data:www-data to all the website files.
Now I want to add a second user (who is less server savvy than me, but still knows FTP) and their user directory is: /home/user2/domain2.com/public . Again I need to assign www-data:www-data to allow their WordPress site to edit/upload files, however because they also use SFTP, by changing the user they no can no longer upload/edit files through SFTP.
So what would be the best user permissions to set to allow www-data to work, but also let them use SFTP to modify files?
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This question gets asked quite a bit in one form or another.
Personally, I like to keep my web folders in /var/www/somewebsite
Then, I use this method:
http://blog.netgusto.com/solving-web-file-permissions-problem-once-and-for-all/
to mount the needed web-folder into different users home folder. Works great, keeps permissions from getting tangly, and keeps everyone in their own home folder.
It is a long read, but quite easy to set up. Took me about 5 ~ 10 minutes to have it all working.
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