Also, you're going to want to add your user to the www-data group.  Then check to see what perms a modified or added file has.  If it's not something you can write to, you'll have to set some suids or default facls.

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 7:42 PM James Mcphee <jmcphe@gmail.com> wrote:
You need to give www-data write access for wordpress to be able to write to files.  chmod -R 775 www/
Whether a web daemon SHOULD have access to edit its own files is a whole nother question.

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 7:35 PM <techlists@phpcoderusa.com> wrote:


Hi I am running a local server running Ubunto 16.04LTS with a stock LAMP install that runs  stock Apache.

I have an install of WordPress under /var/www/vhost/{vhost-name}/public_html

Here is my problem.

I can either FTP or WordPress can edit / remove file.  I cannot do both.  Not sure why.

To allow WordPress to modify files I must:  (I cannot SFTP)

  • chown -R {my-user-name}:www-data www/
  • chmod -R 755 www/

To allow me to SFTP I must change the file ownership:  (WordPress cannot modify files)

  • chown -R {my-user-name}:www-data www/

I would like to be able to FTP and allow WordPress to modify files.

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks!!


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