Setting up a collaboration website and can't seem to get the permissions right

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The end goal is the have a webpage that several people can work on in there spare time. I made a directory /WEBSITE/public_html and want the main page to be here for several contributors to be able to access. Made a user group called webadmin and added the users to the group. then did chown -R mainuser:webadmin /WEBSITE then I did chown -R mainuser:webadmin /WEBSITE/public_html. I want to be able to SFTP to in the server and send the website I have to it. I can sftp in but it will not allow me to send files there. What am I missing? I know this is a super noob question so thank you for you time and patients.

DrClaw

Possible duplicate of How to avoid using sudo when working in /var/www? — Panther, Oct 12 '17 at 04:40
Add each user you wish to be able to edit your web files a member of www-data . I also highly suggest you continue to use /var/www/html as the default location as there is really no need for apache to be crawling outside it's box. Your problem is apach runs as www-data and you have excluded that user (www-data) from accessing files owend by "mainuser:webadmin" — Panther, Oct 12 '17 at 04:43

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 11 '17 at 22:48

Make sure the directory permissions are correct: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-file-and-directory-permissions/

Directory permissions

Permissions for directories aren't exactly the same as they are for files. Here are some typical permissions required on directories:

Execute permission is required for a user to cd into a directory.
Read permission is required for a user to use a command such as ls to view the files contained in a directory.
Execute-only permission allows a user to access the files in a directory as long as the user knows the names of the files in the directory, and the user is allowed to read the files.
Write permission allows the user to create, delete, or modify any files or subdirectories, even if the file or subdirectory is owned by another user

Setting up a collaboration website and can't seem to get the permissions right

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