On 18 Jul 2012, at 9:01 AM, lyn2py wrote: > Correction: changing the permissions back to www-data ironed things out. > However, I would like user ubuntu to have access to www-data folder. > > How can I make it work? > > I have tried > sudo adduser ubuntu www-data > and confirmed that ubuntu belongs to the www-data group. > But it still doesn't work.
Note that adding ubuntu to the www-data group means that ubuntu will use the group permissions rather than owner permissions (which www-data would do). For example a 755 directory would be writeable by www-data (owner) but not by ubuntu (group). Perhaps you ought to have Apache (or at least the web2py wsgi processes) run as ubuntu instead. See this line in the setup script: WSGIDaemonProcess web2py user=www-data group=www-data Or you could allow ubuntu to sudo www-data, if that's not too inconvenient. > > Thanks. > > > On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 11:55:25 PM UTC+8, lyn2py wrote: > I discovered that after I changed permissions on the web2py folder (chown), > web2py registers this internal error. > > I did this because adding user to the www-data group doesn't give it > permissions at all (weird!) > > Changing the permissions back to www-data:www-data didn't iron things out. > > Can an expert help? Thanks. > > --
