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Asked: 2026-05-25T19:07:11+00:00

I am using Arch Linux on a web development machine, and have a multi-vhost

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I am using Arch Linux on a web development machine, and have a multi-vhost setup with the root directories of each vhost under:

/var/www/vhosts

Apache2 is using the user/group: http/http

If I setup the files to be owned by my user and the http group then apache cannot access them. If I setup the files to be owned by http and the users group then I have no access.

I am trying to move from a Windows development machine to Linux since right now I am doing PHP MySQL work.

How can I get around this issue so that my user can create and edit files without needing to worry about breaking access for apache each time?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I use Arch as well quite a lot and instead like the approach of using a limited user’s home directory instead of /var/www/vhosts. For instance, you could have a user named sites, ensure that they’re not apart of any admin groups and then have the sites in /home/sites/site1, /home/sites/site2, etc… Then make sure that those directories are 644 and files 75:

    find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0664 # For files
find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0755 # For directories
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