I recently moved a Kirby powered website to a VPS (DigitalOcean) due to the ability to add a SSL certificate to the site. But something is wrong with my configuration, because I can’t upload images (permission denied). I am using a apache web server. The whole website has the owner/group: www-dat…

What about your php.ini settings? What are the values for upload_max_filesize post_max_size

Ok, it turns out there are a couple of issues. The upload issue is solved by increased the upload_max_filesize to 16MB Thanks! The remaining issue is much bigger: I can’t edit files anymore due the fact that the website has the user/group: www-data www-data Is there a solution that I can develo…

Do you mean working locally yourself and working on the live site via the panel? How did you transfer the files? If used SSH / Rysnc, perhaps you connected with the wrong user name to do it.

How do you deploy? I usually run a script that changes the permissions and user after upload if I upload with SFTP: #!/bin/sh DIRS="assets content kirby site thumbs" FILES="index.php" for dir in $DIRS;do sudo chown -R www-data.www-data "$dir" find "$dir" -type d -print0 | xargs -0r sudo chmod 77…

Right know I develop locally and upload the edited files with SSH. But this workflow is no longer working. Should I change this workflow like clone the repo to the server and use your script?

I use this script manually if I upload via SFTP and via a post update hook if I deploy with git.

If you use Rsync to deploy, using the correct username for connection, your problem will go away. Otherwise, your down to fixing perms/users after upload.

Thanks @jimbobrjames for the link. Definitely worth diving into it! But how was this permission issue managed on my shared hosting provider before moving to a VPS with root access? Before I was able to change code locally and uploaded it via FTP without hassle …

Well shared hosting works differently. Things are kind of sandboxed, but now your on a VPS, full permissions come into play because you have full access to the box. Before, with shared hosting, you only had access to a folder on a server, so ownership didn’t really come into it, only file permission…

Can't upload files since moving to VPS

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jimbobrjames May 30, 2018, 10:14am 9

@andalusi See my post here for smart way to do it.

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Can't upload files since moving to VPS

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