Issue
I am trying to chown a directory via an NPM script. The script looks like the following:
chown -R 755 www-data [email protected]:/var/www/test.com
But the message I get back is: chown: www-data: No such file or directory even though this exists. Any ideas much appreciated.
Solution
chown operates locally, not on remote servers. In your example, chown is attempting to operate on ./www-data and ./[email protected]:/var/www/test.com, which don't exist in the directory of wherever you were when you executed the command.
You will need to execute chown as a command through ssh:
ssh [email protected] chmod -R 755 /var/www/test.com/
Answered By - JoshuaRLi Answer Checked By - Senaida (WPSolving Volunteer)