chown: invalid user: ‘www-data:www-data

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The www-data is for ubuntu, try with apache for username and group

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

Make sure that the package is install.

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Updated on September 18, 2022

Cebrayil over 1 year

I am trying to install laravel , now I need to Set the required permissions for the project . when I wrote sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/laravel/ I am getting error chown: invalid user: ‘www-data:www-data’ .What is the problem?
- Seth almost 5 years
  
  It clearly states what the problem is so what are you confused about?
- Cebrayil almost 5 years
  
  I am using nginx not apache .can I write sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/laravel is the same thing?
- Seth almost 5 years
  
  You will have to check how your system is setup and what users actually exist. For example do a ls -la /var and look what user and group is set for the www directory, check your service configuration, htop or your passwd file.
- Cebrayil almost 5 years
  
  I checked etc/passwd nginx:x:998:996:nginx user:/var/cache/nginx: this line exist .
- Seth almost 5 years
  
  In that case you could try our suggestion. The target of the chown command is to make the file owned by the user and group the webserver uses.
Cebrayil almost 5 years

sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/laravel/ is that okey?
pioupiou almost 5 years

Yes run with that, i don't know you have nginx