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Asked: 2026-05-25T06:22:41+00:00

My Rails app is having trouble writing into it’s public/ directory. I’ve setup nginx

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My Rails app is having trouble writing into it’s public/ directory. I’ve setup nginx with user root;, the capistrano recipe I’m using also is using root when connecting via ssh.

To fix this I made capistrano run chmod o+w -R #{current_path}/ but I don’t think this is a good solution. What am I missing?

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  1. Editorial Team

    According to Phusion Passenger’s documentation:

    Under no circumstances will applications be run as root. If
    environment.rb/config.ru is owned as root or by an unknown user, then
    the Rails/Rack application will run as the user specified by
    passenger_default_user and passenger_default_group.

    http://modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Nginx.html#user_switching

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