Grant a user permissions on www-data owned /var/www

Posted by George Pearce on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by George Pearce
Published on 2013-10-24T14:51:06Z Indexed on 2013/10/24 16:10 UTC
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I have a simple web server setup for some websites, with a layout something like:

site1: /var/www/site1/public_html/

site2: /var/www/site2/public_html/

I have previously used the root user to manage files, and then given them back to www-data when I was done (WordPress sites, needed for WP Uploads to work). This probably isn't the best way.

I'm trying to find a way to create another user (lets call it user1) that has permission to edit files in site1, but not site2, and doesn't stop the files being 'owned' by www-data. Is there any way for me to do this?

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