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I followed these instructions (in the accepted answer) for setting up permissions on my /var/www/ folder.

I'm using the www-data group as it says to use. jdownes and testuer1 are both memebers of the group.

When jdownes (or any other www-data member) creates a file in /var/www they are able to edit it just fine. If another user (testuser1) in the www-data group goes to edit and save it, they are able to save but get the following error.

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Here are the permissions for /var/www and the permissions on the file...

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I have root access to the server and have been setting all permissions using putty not winscp. Is the issue that the owner is not www-data for new files? If so, how can I force all new files to use www-data as the owner?

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Here is what you need to do, assume www-data is the user and group apache is running at and that for /var/www the owner is you and the group is www-data:

chmod 755 /var/www
chmod g+s /var/www

The chmod g+s (set groupid) will ensure that new files will have the same group as the /var/www folder (www-data). chmod 755 /var/www ensures apache (through the www-data group) can read the folder and the user has read-write access. You need to have sufficient rights to do this.

In WinSCP set the group at least RX and user RWX and set the GID for the folder /var/www.

The reason apache fails is the missing X bit on the user and group for that folder (is 0664, should be 0755), it cannot read (= execute) the folder.

For files, 644 is sufficient: you are not required to set the GID.

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