Php How Do I Use Fopen() While Being Able to Edit Files in the Website Directory as Non-Root User?
I'm Running a Local Apache2 Web Server at /Var/Www/. in Order to Use the Fopen() Function in Php, the User and Group of My Site Directory Must Both Be...
I'm running a local apache2 web server at /var/www/.
In order to use the fopen() function in php, the user and group of my site directory must both be 'www-data'. Problem is, when I try to edit files as normal user in the website directory, the normal user has insufficient permissions to write.
1 Answer
To enable both your ordinary user and the php interpreter to read and write the same files - and assuming the www-data group already has read + write permissions on the files - you can add your user to the www-data group.
sudo gpasswd -a david www-data
This won't take effect until you logout and log back in again. Until then, you will be able "spoof" being in the www-data group with:
newgrp www-data
This will cause your shell to fork into a newgrp process, during which you'll have a new shell session with belonging to www-data group.
You can exit this with Ctrl+D
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