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Please check file permissions on your server

February 13, 2021 at 7:37 am #5144

[anonymous]

Screenshot: https://share.getcloudapp.com/P8ukk6go

I was running successfully as root user. I created a new user and disabled root login and password using only keys. Now I get the above message.

February 13, 2021 at 12:00 pm #5149

[anonymous]

Hi,

Most probably the newly created user has no permissions to write files in the specific directory. Please also make sure that you have provided proper absolute path to a folder where you want to publish your website. Maybe your location is outside the newly created user folders.

February 14, 2021 at 5:56 am #5157

[anonymous]

Most probably the newly created user has no permissions to write files in the specific directory.

I’m not sure how to do that, any suggestions/resources? I’m using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server.

Please also make sure that you have provided proper absolute path to a folder where you want to publish your website.

It’s good as it worked fine with the root user.

February 14, 2021 at 6:34 am #5158

[anonymous]

So far the info here

https://askubuntu.com/questions/19898/whats-the-simplest-way-to-edit-and-add-files-to-var-www

got me the green light.

February 16, 2021 at 3:05 pm #5173

[anonymous]

Great to hear, that you have found a solution 🙂

I have mentioned the proper absolute path, because root user can write files anywhere – so if you provide wrong path (e.g. “/”) root user will be able to write there, but other users not