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#25717 Site Migration files in Akeeba still has old owner name

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Latest post by nicholas on Monday, 25 July 2016 14:25 CDT

Monday, 25 July 2016 12:43 CDT

cc,admin
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: Please attach a ZIP file containing your Akeeba Backup log file in order for us to help you with any backup or restoration issue. If the file is over 2Mb, please upload it on your server and post a link to it.

Description of my issue: I migrated my site and the owner name changed from Daemon to bitnami. Akeeba backup files are backing up as daemon (the old owner name) and keeping me from downloading. I can use sudo command to change owner but is their another way?

Steve

Monday, 25 July 2016 14:25 CDT

nicholas
This has nothing to do with Akeeba Backup and everything to do with how the operating system of the web server works. Please read the entire section How your web server works in our documentation. Since your web server runs under a specific user all of the files written by PHP scripts on your server are owned by that user. We can obviously NOT do anything about it because changing the ownership of files requires root privileges (hence the need run sudo chown as you pointed out). Do remember that this is how your web server's operating system is designed to work.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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