Allow web users to write files into folder

Question

I have a web site running on Ubuntu server with Nginx installed and I made profile picture upload in Django. However when I try to upload a new profile picture it says

[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/xyz/djangodir/media/profile_pics/profilepicxyz.png'

How can I allow users to write new files into the /profile_pics folder?

I am a beginner in Ubuntu and Nginx, so it might be a really easy solution.

My intuition is that it will be done using chmod or chown commands.

Answer 1

Try the following

Using /var/www/projectfiles as the webroot is a best practice.

Change the webroot owner using the below command

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/projectfiles

and the file and folder permissions are

cd /var/www/projectfiles

and run the following commands

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;  

then give 777 permission for /profile_pics

chmod -R 777 /var/www/projectfiles/profile_pics