First off, thanks to all of you being so supportive in this Forum. I came here to resolve many problems already posted by the community. Today I am reaching out to you because I am noticing an odd behavior and unfortunatley, the solutions I found here are not working for me.
I am not sure what Linux version I have so I will post the Serverdetails here:
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Release: 11
Codename: bullseye
Static hostname: mx.###.###
Icon name: ###
Chassis: vm
Machine ID: ###
Boot ID: ###
Virtualization: kvm
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-22-amd64
Architecture: x86-64
I have a chown and writing issue with WordPress and STFP; conflicting ownership issues.
Every time I change the owner (chown -R mark:www-owner directory/) to write files via SFTP, WordPress looses the writing permissions. It then asks me to enter the FTP credentials every time I want to install something or update the WP instance.
I have a Sudo User, let's call him Mark. Mark is as well a Sudo user and a normal user, that I can change to sudo with the sudo -i command.
In my file system, the default ownership for all files and folders is set to www-owner:www-owner. I just set up the SFTP, so I could also easily upload some files to my server without the need to start the console and drop them on the server first. For that I had to change the writing permissions for the user Mark, so I could upload files to the SFTP. But then WP lost all the writing permissions
This is the setup I tried:
- Default ownership:
www-owner:www-owner (WordPress operates just fine
with this)
-> Problem here: I don't have writing permissions via SFTP with the user Mark.
- I changed the ownership for folders and subfolders (chown -R) to
mark:www-owner.
-> Now I have writing permissions via SFTP with the user Mark, but WordPress cannot write anymore in the specified folder and the issues start piling up.
- I added to both users www-owner and Mark to a Group called "wp-admin" and changed the ownership of the folders to
mark:wp-admin. I have the same issue as in 2.
Conclusion:
If www-owner is both the owner and the group, WP works fine. But I have no permissions to upload or change files via SFTP with the user Mark.
If I change the ownership to mark:www-owner. WP cannot write files anymore.
I also tried adding both users to a new group called wp-admin and changed the ownership to mark:wp-admin. Same issue here, WP cannot write files.
I want to achieve, that both users can write in the directory as of wp-admin:wp-admin. But as I only have a group called wp-admin, I get the error that wp-admin user does not exist. So, I seem to be unable to add a group of as owners.
I am at the end of my vocabulary and I would appreciate your help. Thanks in advance.
