Using SSH I've granted access to my SFTP clients user "ec2-user" with the following command:
sudo chown -R ec2-user /var/www/html
However I also need to grant access to Apache which I can do with the following command:
sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html
I assumed this would grant access to both, but this is not the case. How can I apply the command to both ec2-user & Apache at the same time?
When you have executed chown commands, you did next: at first you've changed the owner of /var/www/html to ec2-user, and with next command you've changed the owner and owner group to apache. You can set only one pair of owner:owner-group to file or directory or whatever.
You have at least two ways to solve your task:
usermod -a -G apache ec2-user - this will add user ec2-user to apache group, after that, make sure, that permissions allows apache group members to manipulate files and directories as you need./var/www/html with owner set to ec2-user and group set to main apache group and make sure that Apache could access it. You can configure it as a VirtualHost to separate it from original DocumentRoot.Also, you have to set ec2-user home directory to /var/www/html, because even if it's has rights to access /var/www/html, it isn't necessary that it can access /var or /var/www.
These instructions helped me to get this up and running very easily:
https://devanswers.co/configure-sftp-web-server-document-root/
Here's a cached version: https://web.archive.org/web/20201203122712/https://devanswers.co/configure-sftp-web-server-document-root/
The idea here is to create a group like sftp_users and then set permissions to that group, adding the user to that group (the link above details all configurations and setup very well)
