Hello,

I'm running Lucid Ubuntu with Apache2.
Mostly my site works well.

But: when PHP scripts execute mkdir() or move_uploaded_file commands, the newly created folders/files are owned by another unix user, not www-data. www-data owns the containing folder.

I did create this other user, but it shouldn't be owning these files.

When I log in with my public key, a different user -- not the troublesome one -- is used.

The troublesome user also owns my PHP sessions when they get created, although nothing else.

When I delete the user (the bad one) I can't restart Apache -- I get "bad username." My PHP sessions also break.

So I add the user again and I'm back where I started.

Any ideas?

Thanks so much,
Elliot

It sounds like PHP is running as the "troublesome" user. How are you running PHP (mod_php, cgi, fpm, etc.)?

Bjl-

Thanks for thinking about this. I had mpm directives that made apache run as the troublesome user. In /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/<site name>. Not sure how that happened, but it's fixed now.

Apologies, this seeems like a noob mistake. Thanks again for responding.

-Eliot

No problem. Glad to see you got it figured out.