I'm running an ubuntu server with apache and I have web directory which is owned by the user www-data and the group www-data. WordPress works great in this directory. It can auto update and I can upload files.I want to also create a web directory which is owned by another custom user I'm going to add. However when I change the owner on the web directory from www-data to the customer user WordPress is no longer to auto update and I can not upload unless I change the group permission.Is there a way to make my custom user act like the apache www-data user?
Apache, www-data and custom user permission
apache;wordpress;users
You can have your customer in the same group as www-data and set your/their FTP config to always upload with group permissions set to be read/writeable by www-data.What this might be a problem with is when you get another customer. You will not want customer A being able to read/write customer B's data.Therefore consider doing it the other way, having Apache run with the customer's uid + gid. This can be done, more instructions on how to configure your vhosts etc is here:http://articles.slicehost.com/2010/5/19/configuring-the-apache-mpm-on-ubuntu