Want to add a user to upload files using FileZilla on Debian server

Hi BritWeb,

Generally speaking you want to be careful with how you modify permissions on files being served by a web server. If you can, I'd start by reverting back to the permissions you had.

One of the ways I get around this issue is by making my user a secondary group member of www-data:

sudo usermod -aG www-data myuser

And giving the group write access:

sudo chmod -R g+w /var/www/

Before you go messing with this further, you may want to read this

Many thanks for the advice and the link, alexfornuto. That's exactly what I was after.

Cheers!

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EDIT: P.S. I just realized that the chmod command I gave you was missing a "-R", for recursive.~~

@alexfornuto:

EDIT: P.S. I just realized that the chmod command I gave you was missing a "-R", for recursive.

Yes, I did notice that and included '-R' when I did it to apply the permission recursively to files & folders down and all is well.

Cheers!

Hi

Just realised that when I transferred files on to the server using FileZilla as the user that I added to www-data group (and the www-data has write permission to folders & files), the files show permission as -rw-r–r-- rather than -rw-rw-r– which I originally set up and the owner/group for those files show ftuser ftuser rather than www-data www-data.

How do I overcome this? I do not have to reset the permissions every time files were loaded, do I?

Kind regards

Make the group www-data (apache or whatevs) sticky on the directory. When a file is modified or put into a "sticky" directory the group ownership is inherited from the directory's parent rather than the user's group. Then you will, generally, chmod -R g+rx so the web server has permissions (based on group) after that it should maintain itself adding the appropriate group to new files. Anyone can be owner…we really only focus on the group to accomplish this task in this way.

Command: find /var/www -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \;

Explanation: http://superuser.com/questions/378412/e … in-var-www">http://superuser.com/questions/378412/editing-files-in-var-www (third post…more or less)

The owner of the files does not have be www-data for apache to work well. The requirement is that the apache server which runs as www-data must be able to read the files. Most systems default to allowing group read access, so having the group on the files be www-data is sufficient.

Thanks, jeremye77

Much appreciate your prompt reply and I will follow your post.

Regards