What user to use when executing flarum commands?

CyberGene

I’m preparing a move from my current hosting to DigitalOcean and it’s promising so far, with most of the stuff working already. However I noticed some pretty odd problems with permissions when clearing cache. Do I have to execute the various composer and PHP commands in SSH with the same user that the Apache server runs on, i.e. www-data? Because I used my own user which belongs to www-data but apparently the reverse is not true and then after I tried to clean the cache from the Flarum Admin web page I got permission errors again. Which all leads me to believe I should always be under su - www-data or otherwise things will get messed up.

Furthermore, seems like I should recursively chmod 775 and chown to www-data all files in all sub-folders of storage and assets, correct? Anything wrong with that?

Any other general advices?

P.S. can you rename the title from “flaring” to “Flarum”, an auto-correct typo 🤦🏻‍♂️

clarkwinkelmann

CyberGene you should be able to do it with multiple solutions, but in general if you can use the same user for Composer and the webserver it will make things easier. So yes if you are able to run Composer as www-data you could do that.

If both are run under the same shell users, you shouldn't need very broad file permissions, if it's the same user both should be able to read and write the files almost no matter the permission as long as they own them.