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maro

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Registered: 2020-06-05

Posts: 6

[SOLVED]LEMP stack drupal installation cant create a files directory

Hello,

I want to install drupal on my LEMP stack on localhost on a virtual machine(using Virtualbox version 6.1).
I followed this guide in the archwiki for nginx running it as unprivileged user and did the same for php-fpm https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Nginx# … ng_systemd.
i created the user www which should be the equivalent to www-data.

ps -aux | grep nginx
www          329  0.0  0.0   9400  1268 ?        Ss   02:37   0:00 nginx: master process /usr/bin/nginx -gpid /run/nginx/nginx.pid; error_log stderr;
www          330  0.0  0.1  10120  3624 ?        S    02:37   0:00 nginx: worker process

ps -aux | grep php-fpm
www          325  0.0  1.2 295136 24912 ?        Ss   02:37   0:00 php-fpm: master process (/etc/php/php-fpm.conf)
www          344  0.0  1.1 305944 23020 ?        S    02:37   0:00 php-fpm: pool www
www          345  0.0  1.3 310336 27464 ?        S    02:37   0:00 php-fpm: pool www

note for php-fpm i also needed to change the /etc/php/php-fpm.d/www.conf
based on this https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64683
i replaced this

;listen.acl_users =
;listen.acl_groups =

with

listen.acl_users = www
listen.acl_groups = www

maybe how i created the user is the point?

useradd -r -M -s /bin/false www

what i did was i used chown to change the permission of sites/default to www:www

chown -R www:www default

and it still complains that the directory is not writable
afterwards i tried this:

chmod -R 777 default

and it still complains that it doesnt have write access to sites/default

i also tried

chown -R www:www html
find html -type d -exec chmod 770 {} +
find html -type f -exec chmod 640 {} +

and this gave me a 404 not found error this showed me that nginx couldn't access the files even if www(nginx,php-fpm) is the owner or in the group of the file.

Last edited by maro (2021-05-14 18:37:02)

maro

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Registered: 2020-06-05

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED]LEMP stack drupal installation cant create a files directory

I solved it by creating a dir at / called web changed the acl settings of that dir changed my web config accordingly and it works, it didnt work probably because the path got blocked by some directory in the way.