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authorLouise Crow <louise.crow@gmail.com>2014-08-19 15:30:26 +0100
committerGareth Rees <gareth@mysociety.org>2014-08-21 17:38:22 +0100
commitd8b996cdb6b29dd7e2d25af40a9ec3c9015cfeec (patch)
treeacff0675b9c437f3a799b878c208fe0570a4d654 /docs
parent9c5e30bdefe40f270f8285e75aa1445de1e7bf2c (diff)
The alaveteli user needs to be able to write to /var/www to create cron lock files.
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diff --git a/docs/installing/manual_install.md b/docs/installing/manual_install.md
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@@ -234,6 +234,7 @@ Create a new linux user to run the Alaveteli application.
Create the target directory and clone the Alaveteli source code in to this directory:
mkdir -p /var/www/alaveteli
+ chown alaveteli:alaveteli /var/www
chown alaveteli:alaveteli /var/www/alaveteli
cd /home/alaveteli
sudo -u alaveteli git clone --recursive \