How do I keep NGINX directory ownership after installation on Amazon 2 EC2

Vlad

10/31/23, 3:15 PM

I have NGINX server set up as proxy to a rails application.

In the main config file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf I've set user to be ec2-user, which is the default user for this instance.

Since NGINX server is installed via sudo (root account), I had to change ownership of the lib directory sudo chown -Rf ec2-user:ec2-user /var/lib/nginx this way in order to be able to show the compiled VueJS parts of the application.

Unfortunately, I now need to run this chown command every time NGINX gets updated by the system, and I am not familiar enough with SysAdmin to ether:

Know why I needed to do that in the first place?
How to automate it post install?
How to bypass this requirement without running NGINX as root?

Can anyone provide answers or suggest a better approach to deployment than I have in place?

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miken32

11/29/23, 4:49 PM

Nginx should not be getting updated without a sysadmin being involved and aware of it. You'll just have to include the ownership change in your update process. It is a bit of a pain, but unavoidable.

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