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physalis
Asked: 2016-06-30 12:33:03 +0800 CST

HHVM w/ FastCGI vs. Uploading via WordPress

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I successfully installed nginx, HHVM (running with FastCGI) etc. on an Ubuntu 15.10 installation, and HHVM is, in itself, running fine. My /var/www directory is owned by my user and group (e.g. sam:sam), so I can access it via SSH and SFTP and change files accordingly. When now running a CMS like WordPress, it obviously runs as the web server (www-data), and thus cannot change/add/delete files from its backend (e.g. upload files, update WordPress/plugins) as would be required unless I change user and group ownership to www-data.

Is there a way to solve this to be able to change files via PHP and SSH without letting the web server run with a user that has obviously sudo rights? I believe 'normal' PHP running as FastCGI is able to circumvent the problem.

php fastcgi chown hhvm

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  1. Best Answer

    If I'm understanding the situation correctly you should change the ownership of the files to the www-data user. Since you have sudo permissions you can add your user (sam) to the www-data group and still be able to do what you need to do.

    To add your user to the www-data group:

    usermod -a -G www-data sam

    To change ownership of all the files to www-data user and group:

    sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www

    To add group write permissions to all files in /var/www:

    sudo chmod -R g+w /var/www
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