My document dataroot (config.php) and is writeable by www-data, Is this an issue?

My document dataroot (config.php) and is writeable by www-data, Is this an issue?

由Doulos Xavier發表於
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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/moodledata

drwxr-xr-x 13 www-data mywebsite 4096 Mar 26 11:04 moodledata/

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Re: My document dataroot (config.php) and is writeable by www-data, Is this an issue?

由Andrew Lyons發表於
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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.

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