What user should be owner for LAMP Stack Directory?

jota 2017-07-27 08:42:20 UTC #4

Could you please share with us the output of the following commands? We'd like to know the current status of the installation.

ls -la /opt/bitnami/
ls -la /opt/bitnami/apache2/
ls -la /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs
ls -la /opt/bitnami/mysql/
ls -la /opt/bitnami/apps/
ls -la /opt/bitnami/apps/*/htdocs

Regarding the errors you are getting, could you please let us know the exact issue and where you are trying to upload the files?

Thank you.
Jota

heinhtetkyaw 2017-08-11 16:40:58 UTC #5

Here is the result !

Normally for apache, wwwroot or www-data should be owner for directory for apache web root!
For bitnami, which user should be owner? www-data (or) wwwroot (or) bitnami ?

Do u understand my question sir? i think u don't understand! :3

jariza 2017-08-14 11:34:49 UTC #6

Hello @heinhtetkyaw

On the one hand, please note that we use the user daemon instead of the the user www-data in order to run the Apache Web Server. When you require to do any kind of action that requires writing permission through the browser, the user daemon must have permissions to do so.

On the second hand, the user bitnami is the one we recommend to use in order to log in the server via SSH (using root is not very secure). Therefore, this user should also have writing permissions on the application files in order to make it easier to edit/upload files using ssh/sftp.

I recommend you to take a look to this guide that explains the process to create an application on top of a LAMP to understand how to structure it and set the permissions:

https://docs.bitnami.com/?page=infrastructure&name=lamp&section=how-to-create-a-custom-php-application

I hope this information is useful for you. If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to let us know.

Best Regards,

Juan Ariza

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marcos 2017-08-14 11:37:51 UTC #7

Hi @heinhtetkyaw,

What are you trying to achieve? Did you misconfigure the ownership for /opt/bitnami?

Please keep in mind that the Apache webroot is not /opt/bitnami/apache2, but /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs. If you navigate there, you will see it has ownership of bitnami:daemon, and directory permissions 755.

If you want to create an htdocs directory with RW permissions, you need to grant permissions for the daemon user to write as well, so permissions must be changed to 775 (only directories), or alternatively ownership must be changed to daemon:daemon.
But keep in mind that this only applies to the Apache htdocs directories, if you do it for all other directories (e.g. varnish, var, etc.) you may break the installation.

Also, in order not to lose data, you are recommended to do periodical backups. You can read about how to do them here: https://docs.bitnami.com/installer/infrastructure/lamp/#backup

I hope it solves your questions!

heinhtetkyaw 2017-08-23 03:48:02 UTC #8

"we use the user daemon instead of the the user www-data"

"Please keep in mind that the Apache webroot is not /opt/bitnami/apache2, but /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs. If you navigate there, you will see it has ownership of bitnami:daemon, and directory permissions 755."

So the ownership for htdocs must be bitnami:daemon or daemon:daemon, right?

These line solves my error...thanks both
Now I have understood the structure and how to use it for production. Thanks

jota 2017-08-23 11:15:41 UTC #9

Hi @heinhtetkyaw,

Yes, we configure the permissions of the /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs folder to be readable and writable by the bitnami user that is the one you will use when accessing the instance and to be readable by the daemon group that is the one that Apache uses when reading the files. In case Apache needs write permissions in that folder, you can use 775 instead of 755 when setting the permissions.

In case you want to deploy your own PHP application, you can follow this section in our documentation that explains how to achieve that

https://docs.bitnami.com/?page=infrastructure&name=lamp&section=how-to-create-a-custom-php-application

Best regards,
Jota

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jorgemarin 2017-08-28 13:55:56 UTC #10

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michaelyx 2018-12-09 19:31:59 UTC #11

Can you please help me with the commands needed to get the right permissions on Ubuntu? I've installed a LAMPStack for offline testing of Typo3 CMS on my home computer with: sudo /opt/bitnami-lampstack-1.2-4-linux-installer.run

jota 2018-12-10 11:35:49 UTC #13

Hi @michaelyx,

Thank you for using the Bitnami solution. Please note that each folder requires different permissions depending on the service that it contains or the configuration files it has. Could you please let us know the folder you need to configure? If you deployed Typo3 manually, this guide explains how to configure the PHP application properly

https://docs.bitnami.com/installer/infrastructure/lamp/administration/create-custom-application-php/

The permissions of the htdocs folder would be

sudo chown -R :daemon installdir/apps/demo/htdocs
sudo chmod -R g+w installdir/apps/demo/htdocs

Let us know if you have any questions

michaelyx 2018-12-10 20:20:51 UTC #14

Hi @jota!
Thank you for your help!
I try to configure the localhost /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs for the Typo3 installation.
I used:

sudo chown -cR :daemon /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs
sudo chmod -cR g+w /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs

Installation started sucessfull!
Thanks!

ghina.altal 2019-01-09 10:21:56 UTC #15

Hi @jariza

I have worpress website on LAMP bitnami server...
the website files are in htdocs directory in the path /home/bitnami/htdocs
I am confused about the owner and permission setting
..this is the setting and owner of my files ... is it correct??

thank you in advanced

ghina.altal 2019-01-09 10:38:46 UTC #16

hi @jota ...
I want to know if my permission and owner for my wordpress website folder in htdocs is correct or not ??
I am using Bitnami-LAMP server .. and the web root is in /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs

jota 2019-01-09 12:11:36 UTC #17

Hi @ghina.altal,

It seems you changed the permissions of the WordPress installation, you can recover them by running these commands

sudo chown -R bitnami:daemon /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs
sudo chmod -R g+w /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs
sudo chmod 644 /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-config.php

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ghina.altal 2019-01-09 13:24:57 UTC #18

@jota thank you... what about .htaccess file ? what permission should I give it?

also how can i stop the auto update of my wordpress website? .. I mean if wordpress release a new version i don't want my website to update automatically

jota 2019-01-10 10:19:58 UTC #19

Hi @ghina.altal,

Please note that we do not use the .htaccess files by default in our installations for security and performance reasons.

https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/apps/wordpress/administration/use-htaccess/

In case you edited the configuration, the .htaccess files should be only writable by the bitnami user and not by the daemon one.

sudo chown bitnami:daemon /path/to/.htaccess
sudo chmod 644 bitnami:daemon /path/to/.htaccess

You can configure that in the main configuration file of WordPress (/opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-config.php)

https://codex.wordpress.org/Configuring_Automatic_Background_Updates#Constant_to_Configure_Core_Updates

Happy to help!

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ghina.altal 2019-01-10 10:42:33 UTC #20

Thank you @jota so much ,,,

I want only to stop auto update for wordpress version ... for example I don't ny website to auto update to wordpress version 5.0.3

I used this code in wp_config.php file:
define( 'wp_auto_update_core', false );

is it correct??

sorry but the article has many update option and don't know what to use, so I need you help please

jota 2019-01-10 10:51:22 UTC #21

Hi @ghina.altal,

Please use the same syntax

define( 'WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE', false );

I just noticed that you asked the same question (the permissions and the .htaccess file) in many different places. Please let's keep the conversation in one single place instead of having all our support agents replying the same questions.

Thanks

ghina.altal 2019-01-10 11:01:18 UTC #22

@jota
does the code in uppercase differ from the one in lower case?

is define( 'WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE', false ); the same as define( 'wp_auto_update_core', false ); ??

jota 2019-01-11 10:14:14 UTC #23

Hi @ghina.altal,

I do not know if the uppercase and lowercase variables differ in WordPress, but I suggest you use the same syntax that the official documentation of WordPress mentions.

Thanks

ronsom 2019-05-31 03:15:44 UTC #24

In the situation, case does matter. define() is a core PHP function that defines a Constant. So in this use case WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE should be capitalized. https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.define.php helps to explain this.

It's also worth noting that Wordpress uses all caps for it's constants, so when it looks for WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE it won't find it if it is defined as wp_auto_update_core

Hope this helps,
Ron

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