apache user does not exist

Question

I\'m trying to run the command, chown -R apache:apache xyz But I\'m getting error, chown: apache:apache\': invalid user

Then I tried for the user www-da

Answer 1

look in the configuration for apache - httpd.conf. The following lines should give you the needed informations.

For the user do:

find / -name httpd.conf | xargs grep -i "^user"

and for the group do:

find / -name httpd.conf | xargs grep -i "^group" 

-Martin