This document https://docs.moodle.org/405/en/Upgrading mentions that
chown -R root:root moodle (Linux debian - or even create a user especially for moodle. Don't use the web server user, e.g. www-data)
My document dataroot (config.php) and is writeable by www-data, Is this an issue?var/www/mywebsite/moodledatadrwxr-xr-x 13 www-data mywebsite 4096 Mar 26 11:04 moodledata/
My document dataroot (config.php) and is writeable by www-data, Is this an issue?
Doulos Xavier གིས-
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Re: My document dataroot (config.php) and is writeable by www-data, Is this an issue?
Andrew Lyons གིས-
No, this is correct. This is where Moodle stores your user data. Moodle is a web application and runs on a web server. Typically (on Debian/Ubuntu/some others) the web servers runs as the www-data user so it needs access to this location to write your files.
In reply to Andrew Lyons
Re: My document dataroot (config.php) and is writeable by www-data, Is this an issue?
Doulos Xavier གིས-
Thanks Andrew! I posted this on another forum, I am getting a different answer there...https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=467095 I am little confused