Laravel PHP app chown privileges

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PHP Composer does not want to be run as root. PHP-FPM runs as www-data.

When I create a new laravel app using composer, do I want to create a new user for the app, and then chown the public directory as www-data? Or do I want to sudo as www-data to create the app using composer?

Is sudo running as root, or a super admin? If I create a directory with sudo, it is owned by root. Assuming the OS I use runs super admin tasks as root..? I have much to learn, please offer guidance.

Here's a great answer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30639174/file-permissions-for-laravel-5-and-others#37266353 — The Dude man, May 02 '18 at 14:17

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 02 '18 at 06:07

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Assuming you are in Linux, after you create the project as root, you can chown your project folder to www-data:www-data and don't forget to also chmod them.

answered May 02 '18 at 06:07

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