Add nginx to user and group

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Hi !

I know it’s a common problem but I can’t find a complete answer, I, for now, just have pieces of it.

While trying to setup a Nginx server I bumped into a known issue for beginners which is user permission & groups. My Nginx server need to read my files in /srv/http/project but I don’t want to do a “chmod 777” as I learned it is a security issue (any user can access) even if I used it during school :S.

I can see the http user, which I used in the past for Apache server, and the http group but not the nginx user.

How can I link the nginx app to a user to http group then ?

I am missing something… If you can help me ! Thank you !

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You should find the answers you’re looking for here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nginx

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By default nginx runs the process that reads and serves the website as the http user. There is no nginx user in Arch and Manjaro, it is the normal http user.

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add your self to the http group

sudo gpasswd -a $USER http

logout and login then

sudo chmod ug+rw /srv/http -R
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Thank you so much guys !! :ok_hand: