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How can I mount /var/www to /www using linux mount –bind command? – Ubuntu

I’m developing a php application and I would like to mount /var/www to /www.
I have ran chown -hR www-data:www-data /var/www.

What I want to achieve is to be able to create new files and directories with www-data as the owner and www-data as the group using my local account without issues.

So I have decided to mount /var/www to /www using sudo mount --bind /var/www /www so that all local accounts can modify it also files and directories will be created as www-data:www-data but i can’t get it to work.

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    I was able to resolve the issue by taking these steps.

    1. Installed the package bindfs sudo apt install bindfs
    2. Added myself to www-data group sudo usermod -a -G www-data "$LOGNAME"
    3. Mounted /var/www/shared/user to /home/user/Projects/www-data in /etc/fstab using

    /var/www/shared/user /home/user/Projects/www-data fuse.bindfs create-for-user=www-data,create-for-group=www-data,mirror=@www-data 0 0

    Files created under /home/user/Projects/www-data looks like they are owned by user but are created as www-data:www-data

    Output from ls -l /home/user/Projects/www-data:

    drwxrwxr-x+ 2 user www-data 4096 Sep 11 08:40 project_1

    Output from ls -l /var/www/shared/user:

    drwxrwxr-x+ 2 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 11 08:40 project_1

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    I think what you’re looking for here is the setfacl command, which sets the default permissions for a specified directory. After you mount the directory, try the following:

    sudo setfacl -d -m u:www-data:rwx /www

    If you want to change the existing permissions as well, add the -R flag:

    sudo setfacl -R -d -m u:www-data:rwx /www
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