By Antlion
Here’s my setup:
- Fresh Ubuntu 14.04 64x installation.
- Fresh NGINX / MYSQL / PHP5-FPM / PHPMYADMIN installation.
- Installed POSTFIX and VSFTPD.
- umask has been changed to 002.
- the owner/group of the wordpress directory is myusername:myusername.
- myusername is also in the www-data group.
- All directories inside of wordpress are 775 with files being 664.
Regardless of the above, wordpress still cannot write config. This is a more underlining permisssion issue apparently, but I can’t figure out why. My solution are to chown -R the wordpress folder www-data:www-data and just go from there, however for security and work flow reasons that’s highly undesirable.
php is also running on www-data, and when I change the unix name/group to my username, any and all files can also write, but from what I read this is also highly undesirable.
I’d like a solution that doesn’t require me to do either of those. Any help would be appreciated.
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