Changing the user that nginx worker processes run under (Ubuntu 12.04)

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iamyojimbo picture iamyojimbo · Aug 1, 2013 · Viewed 67.2k times · Source

I have a manual install of nginx on Ubuntu 12.04. When I ran ./configure I used the following options:

./configure --user=www-data --group=www-data --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_realip_module

Now the nginx worker processes run under the www-data user in the www-data group. However, I wish to change this to a different user (called nginx in my case).

Is this possible to do after running make and make install already?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer

deagh picture deagh · Aug 1, 2013

As long as your new user (nginx in your case) has the proper rights, everything should work.

You have to change your user setting in nginx.conf

...
user nginx;
...

and restart/reload your server. Link to docs.

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