Thanks for that info Dirk!

Apache by default assigns the user as apache and the group as apache, creating both during its installation. You can change those credentials if you like in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. I know in using Joomla for my websites, doing a recursive chown to the webroot (or virtual web root) using apache:apache takes all those problems away.

No. I've no idea what the default of /var/www/html is. It could even be root:root, but the flexshare app requires the group to be allusers. Part of the flexshare app is installed when you install the Web Server app as it is used for the FIle and FTP upload bits

So "/var/www/html/" has normally the ownership of "apache:apache?

[root@voyager html]# id 48

uid=48(apache) gid=48(apache) groups=48(apache)

[root@voyager www]# ls -al

total 8

drwxr-xr-x   5 root   root       48 Aug 17 20:39 .

drwxr-xr-x. 24 root   root     4096 Aug 17 20:39 ..

drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root        6 Jul 29 19:19 cgi-bin

drwxrwx---   6 apache allusers 4096 Aug 18 09:25 html

drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root        6 Apr 29 22:09 virtual

Installed a WordPress site in /var/www/html and it is working fine.

btw PHP Engines is a nice app it indeed solves the php issue with WordPress sites.

Everything is pointing to a faulty installation of httpd which is an upstream package. It provides the folder /var/www/html and adds the user and group apache. The only thing I am not sure about is what changes the ownership of /var/www/html to the allusers group. It may be app-flexshare.

I'm not sure anymore. I had the impression that group allusers was not there.

I did a reinstall of both system as you can see in my BDC post.

If I do now " id apache":

[root@voyager www]# id apache

uid=48(apache) gid=48(apache) groups=48(apache)

So it exists on this install. Also after installing the webserver app from the marketplace /var/www/html has owner:group apache:allusers. /var/www/virtual and /var/www/cgi/bin still are owner:group root:root

The user and group apache should be added as part of the post-install script of the httpd package. The useradd may fail is a user with the same id (48) already exist. What is the output of:

id 48

You can do root:allusers. I've just played arouns and it looks like you get that error when the user does not exist. To check, try doing:

id apache

I did some testing and it seems my server (PDC) has no "allusers" group. The strange thing the group is in the webconfig" (webconfig --> Accounts --> group) but if I do "chown apache:allusers html" error. I changed apache with "root" thus "chown root:allusers html" same error, chown root:root html" and everything is fine. So to conclude the group allusers is not present!

[root@voyager www]# chown apache:allusers html

chown: invalid group: 'apache:allusers'

Now that I add the piece of text I realize it says clearly group. apache:allusers --> owner:group

Yes, I have 2 users.

Marcel van van Leeuwen wrote:

I have error when adding a website to the webserver. See the screenshot for the error.

Did you add a user in Account/User ?
Not that has any use to a webserver to my opinion