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Author: Keith Smith
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To: plug-discuss
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Subject: Re: Magneto directory / file ownership, and becoming the apache user
On 2017-01-31 10:45, Nathan wrote:
> A couple more ideas,
>
> 1) Create a new user with the same uid as apache, then that user will
> have write access to the /var/www/html directory
>
> 2) Change apache to run as a specific user you choose with login
> abilities and write ability. This means you edit
> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and change the lines that say
> User apache
> Group apache
> to the user and group you want to use.
>
>
> I personally tend to setup a specific user, change apache and php to
> run as that user, then setup an rsync job to watch my local directory
> tree and rsync the files to the remote server on change using inotify.
>
>


Thank you for your excellent advice!!


>
>
>
> On 2017-01-25 17:46, Keith Smith wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am learning Magento 2. Magento suggests setting the file/director
>> owner to Apache if on CentOS. I am on CentOS 7. Magento offers a
>> command line utility - bin/magento which can do a number of things
>> such as enable or disable modules, clear cache etc. It also creates
>> files.
>>
>> I ran the Magento command as root and the files it created were owned
>> by root.
>>
>> I tried to become the apache user with command : su - apache which
>> returned "This account is currently not available."
>>
>> I Assume it would would be best to become the apache user while
>> working from the command line on Magento.
>>
>> Is my thought process reasonable? And id so how do I modify the
>> apache user to I can become the apache user? Or is there a better
>> practice.
>>
>> At this point I have to become root and do a chown apache -R
>> magento-directory.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help!!
>>
>> Keith
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