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

Not all linux servers use apache and group apache. It looks like the server is running the process as nobody.

Are you root on the server? If so you can look in the /etc/groups file to see what groups are defined.