Permission denied after prod setup

[thepra]

Describe the bug

I created the folder /var/www/blog.example.com/ in which I extracted writefreely, setted up nginx and the systemd service, now starting the service gives me permission denied despite I setup the owner as www-data. Should I setup to a different owner?

Application configuration

• Single mode or Multi-user mode? Multi-user
• Database? sqlite
• Open registration? no
• Federation enabled? yes

[thebaer]

What was the fix for this, @thepra? It's always helpful for others to know in case they run into the same issue.

[thepra]

😅 can't remember anymore, solved it but then after trying writefreely I felt it was under developed(features wide). So I left it. Sorry.

[thebaer]

No problem. Out of curiosity, which features were you missing most?

[nzjc]

I found a reasonable way around this
(Ubuntu 20 something, nginx rproxy, writefreely 1.5)

• install and configure wf with sudo -u www-data ./writefreely config start etc.

Previously I had been doing it as my logged in user, or as root via sudo, and that made all sorts of permissions errors bound to happen. As the site is not purely static I didn't really wanna run it all as root.

Also, to get things working from a systemd level, my service def looks like this (and works!)

Description=WriteFreely Instance
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
User=www-data
Group=www-data
Type=simple
StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
WorkingDirectory=/var/www/{MY_DOMAIN}/writefreely
ExecStart=/var/www/{MY_DOMAIN}/writefreely/writefreely
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Hope that helps someone