File permission on Amazon EC2 with both Filezilla and Wordpress

Question

1. I can allow user ec2-user (Amazon AWS) write access to the public web directory (/var/www/html):

   sudo chown -R ec2-user /var/www/html 
   

   which allows me to use Filezilla.

2. And I can allow apache write access by:

   sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html
   

   which allows me to install plugins, updates, etc on Wordpress.

How can I set the permissions to be able to do both?

Answer 1

Try the following:

1. Create a group
2. Add both users to that group
3. Make the group own the directory
4. Change the directory group permissions

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sudo groupadd mygroup

sudo gpasswd -a apache mygroup
sudo gpasswd -a ec2-user mygroup

sudo chown -R apache:mygroup /var/www/html

sudo chmod -R g+w /var/www/html