Rights to the directory and user group?

Question

linux

Interested in the question of how to properly install any component from composer so that without errors access to a specific directory. On a system, 2 users are root and a user with root (sudo) permissions, composer is installed as root. How to properly install Laravel via composer, to the /var/www/$domain directory, so that there are no Access denied problems in the directories storage и bootstrap/cache? Maybe the installation of Laravel needs to be done as the root user or sudo $user?

Answer 1

Usually in these directories there should be read rights from the www user - he is the user from whom the web server is running (for example, apache or nginx)
Laravel installation does not matter from whom to do, just then:
$ sudo chown -R www-user:www- user /var/www/$domain
check which usera the web server is running as, $ps aux | grep nginx/apache/http - what is installed