Warnings and errors appearing on site after changing ubuntu user permissions Amazon EC2 server

Question

My site is running on a EC2 Amazon server under Ubuntu/Apache2.

My site was running fine until I changed the permissions for user 'ubuntu' by doing this command:

chown -R ubuntu /var/www/html

Now my site is spitting out warning messages and errors :(

www.kaysboutique.co.uk

I did this because I wanted to be able to write files via FileZilla after following this answer:

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 05 '15 at 16:53

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Fixed by running these:

sudo chown www-data -R /var/www/html

If not fixed, run sudo chown -R www-data /var/www/html

answered Jul 05 '15 at 16:53

user3554072

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 05 '15 at 17:07

First to fix the pb try to restore the initial user and group for html directory by using this command :

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

And if you need to add new user to www-data group use this command :

sudo useradd -g www-data [username]
sudo passwd [username]

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