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WordPress Permission Issues with LAMP in Debian 10

I created a LAMP server in Debian 10 on Google Compute Engine.
Instead of using /var/www/site/html I want to use /home/user/site/public_html as a root directory for site.
I added following code in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf to enable home directory for sites.

<Directory /home/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

The permissions for public_html for all sub directories is 775 and for all files is 664.
Ownership for all files and folders including public_html is user:www-data

My site is installed and running but I am unable to install any of plugins because WP is unable to write to the directory. I am getting this message when I try to install plugin.

How to Fix this issue?

EDIT

However if I set the ownership to www-data:www-data then I can install plugins but in this case the user can’t use FTP to make any changes to the folder.

Please guide me how can I achieve both.

The solution that comes to my mind is that the user gets the sames rights as that of www-data. In that case we can assign ownership as user:user. So FTP will also work and Plugins will also be able to install.

But I don’t know how to achieve this i.e. to assign the rights of www-data to any user?

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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
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    I have got one solution. If I add the user to www-data group using following command

    sudo usermod -a -G www-data user

    then user can make changes to the folder once accessed through FTP.


  2. 0

    I could find the solution by installing an apache module mod_ruid2. For this the following article helped alot.

    [https://www.jamroom.net/brian/documentation/guides/1202/configuring-apache-with-mod-ruid2]

    But before you may need to install apsx for apache

    sudo apt-get install apache2-dev
sudo apt-get install libcap-dev

    The apache config file for each site shall include following code in the virtual host

    <IfModule mod_ruid2.c>
        RMode config
        RUidGid USER USER
        RGroups www-data
    </IfModule>

    <IfModule itk.c>
            AssignUserID USER USER
    </IfModule>
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