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You have a webserver, and you want several users to be able to log in and edit files in the /var/www/html directory. Here’s some handy commands.

After copying new files to the directory, try this command to fix up the permissions.

sudo /sbin/restorecon -R -v /var/www/html

You want all your web authoring users to be in the same group. Create a new group with:

sudo /usr/sbin/groupadd webauthors

Add users with that group using:

sudo /usr/sbin/useradd -g webauthors newusername

Then set that users password:

sudo /usr/bin/passwd newusername

To change an old users group:

sudo /usr/sbin/usermod -g webauthors existingusername

Now give all the web files the ownership by username apache and group webauthors:

sudo chown -R apache:webauthors /var/www/html/*

Now set the permissions on the web files so that the owner, and the group can edit them.

sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html

It’s also probably a good idea to change the group Apache user to webauthors, in case someone uploads a file, because then they will be the owner.

sudo vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

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