Title: Installing WordPress on LAMP stack
Last modified: July 17, 2020

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# Installing WordPress on LAMP stack

 *  [eddyferns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eddyferns/)
 * (@eddyferns)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-on-lamp-stack/)
 * Hi,
 * Needed clarification on the following:
 * In order to install, run and update WordPress, themes and plugins should ownership
   be assigned to john:john or john:www-data or www-data:www-data while considering
   security issues?

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-on-lamp-stack/#post-13136490)
 * They should be assigned to whatever user the PHP process is using. If you’re 
   using defaults, that’s probably apache:apache or www-data:www-data. It would 
   be best to configure php-fpm to use a separate pool for each website you host
   and assign a different system user to each.
 *  Thread Starter [eddyferns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eddyferns/)
 * (@eddyferns)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-on-lamp-stack/#post-13136925)
 * If to use php-fpm will it have any issue with the .htaccess file or special configuration
   that needs to be done?
 * And, when creating a separate pool for php-fpm, should the data group ‘www-data’
   remain the same?
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-on-lamp-stack/#post-13137034)
 * Apache reads .htacess, so php-fpm is not an issue there. I use abc:abc for my
   sites, allowing no access to the default wwww user.
 *  Thread Starter [eddyferns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eddyferns/)
 * (@eddyferns)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-on-lamp-stack/#post-13138914)
 * Should abc:abc be sudo user and group with root privileges?
 * Have found an interesting articles from the same source about php-fpm. Please
   confirm if possible whether the tutorials is reliable for implementing separate
   php-fpm pools on the same server?
 * [https://www.cloudbooklet.com/how-to-install-php-fpm-with-apache-on-ubuntu-18-04-google-cloud](https://www.cloudbooklet.com/how-to-install-php-fpm-with-apache-on-ubuntu-18-04-google-cloud)
 * [https://www.cloudbooklet.com/how-to-setup-sftp-chroot-jail-on-linux-google-cloud](https://www.cloudbooklet.com/how-to-setup-sftp-chroot-jail-on-linux-google-cloud)
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-on-lamp-stack/#post-13139432)
 * This is not really a WordPress question. I suggest you take it to an Ubuntu support
   forum or mailing list.
 *  [Dion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diondesigns/)
 * (@diondesigns)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-on-lamp-stack/#post-13139446)
 * This isn’t the appropriate place to discuss the setup of FPM pools, but your 
   other question is important.
 * You should **_NEVER_** allow PHP or Apache to run as a user with sudo/root access!
   That opens the door to an attacker being able to take over your entire server.
   They should run as a non-privileged user, and preferably as different users. 
   PHP-FPM (or any other FastCGI solution) allows Apache and PHP to run as different
   users.
 * You didn’t ask, but the filesystem should be owned by the user that runs PHP.
   Apache should never be given write access to the filesystem unless special precautions
   are taken.

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