Magento or Apache 2 – Fix File Permissions Issue

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I have a vm where I run ubuntu 18.04 , Apache 2 and Magento 2.3 every thing works fine but I think I'm doing something wrong with my permissions.

So I have added to user 'dev' to the www-data group (dev is also the sudo user that I use to login )

but when I do

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

My Magento site stops working because it complains it has not access to the files.
but when I run

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

All work fine again and I don't understand why, because the user dev is added to the www-data group so it should have the wright permissions.

or should I run

sudo chown -R dev:www-data /var

I don't know?????

Best Answer

Set Magento permission :-

sudo find var vendor pub/static pub/media app/etc -type f -exec chmod g+w {} \;
sudo find var vendor pub/static pub/media app/etc -type d -exec chmod g+ws {} \;
sudo chown -R :www-data .
sudo chmod u+x bin/magento
sudo chmod -R 777 pub var app/etc setup generated

After follow magento step you need to give permission to these folder :-

sudo chmod -R 0777 var/ generated/code/ pub/static

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Magento – Magento 2 Development permissions issue

Try fix permissons by commands below

sudo find var vendor pub/static pub/media app/etc -type f -exec chmod g+w {} \; && sudo find var vendor pub/static pub/media app/etc -type d -exec chmod g+ws {} \; && sudo chown -R $USER:www-data . && sudo chmod u+x bin/magento
sudo find var pub/media pub/static -type d -exec chmod g+ws {} \;
sudo find var pub/media pub/static -type f -not -name .htaccess -exec chmod g+w {} \;
sudo find -L vendor/bin -type f -exec chmod u+x {} \;

Magento – Permissions: Apache user: www-data and the own magento user: magento added to same group but not working

When you create the magento user, it also creates a group called magento as magento user's default group. You can name the magento user anything you like, however, Magento requires the "magento user" to belong to the Apache user group, which on Ubuntu is always www-data. For clarity, the apache user should also belong to Magento's default group.

Easiest way to accomplish above is:

adduser magento
usermod -aG www-data,sudo magento
usermod -aG magento www-data

For simplicity's sake naming the magento user "magento" is convenient, but not required.

A long way of saying that if you create an alternate group like "Web" and use that instead of www-data you'll run into problems

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