Permissions Issue on Debian with Apache Server

Question

I know there is a ton of questions like this on here. I have looked at, I feel like, all of them and tried the solutions. However I have been running into this issue for a while now.

I have a user that is part of the www-data group. We will call him userA. On my server I have folders setup as Production and Testing. Both are owned by root:www-data.

drwxr-sr-x 2 root www-data 4096 Jan 14 17:25 production

Now with the above directory, in order for me to add files I have to chown to userA:www-data, and then back to root:www-data, once i complete the updates.

userA is part of www-data group

userA: userA adm www-data

I was under the impression that if a user is part of the group he would be allowed to edit and add files and directory. What am I missing here?

Answer 1

As @PiotrP.Karwasz says no write permission for the group.

Solutions (one of):

• give write permission to the group: chmod g+w -R /path/to/folder
• give write permission to the user: as you did, but don't switch it back.
• give write permission to (possibly many) additional users/groups: using setfacl see What are the different ways to set file permissions etc on gnu/linux