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I have a manual install of nginx on Ubuntu 12.04. When I ran ./configure I used the following options:

./configure --user=www-data --group=www-data --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_realip_module

Now the nginx worker processes run under the www-data user in the www-data group. However, I wish to change this to a different user (called nginx in my case).

Is this possible to do after running make and make install already?

Any help would be much appreciated.

wadge
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As long as your new user (nginx in your case) has the proper rights, everything should work.

You have to change your user setting in nginx.conf

...
user nginx;
...

and restart/reload your server. Link to docs.

renwique
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deagh
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    On nginx 1.8 and later you must also specify the group, for example "user nginx staff;" – snez Nov 24 '15 at 11:45
  • bear in mind that this directive should be in the "main" context, that is, outside any other directive. – e18r Dec 09 '16 at 17:57
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If you use PHP5-FPM and get a 502 error after restart nginx, take a look on /var/run/php5-fpm.sock (Debian) :

root@ns353941:/var/run# chown nginx:www php5-fpm.sock

In my case :

nginx = new nginx user

www = group for web

nginx user belong to www, obviously.

Matt
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