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Update: Please anybody can give some help ?

I've an issue with files ownerships.

I have a drupal website and the "files" folder needs to be owned by "www-data" in order to let the users to upload files with php.

However I'm now using svn and I need all folders and files to be owned by my ubuntu user in order to work.

Files have 775 permissions, so both user and group have full access to the files.

I've added my ubuntu user to www-data group but it still doesn't work. I dunno why.
I've tried to change the group to my ubuntu user group but it still doesn't work.

I've also tried to set my ubuntu user as owner, and www-data as group, but in this case the webserver php script cannot anymore upload files into the folder (and this is again strange because the group has full privilegies).

thanks

Not sure to understand your issue, but, if you suspect permission problems, su to the user and try to write at that directory.

Code:

su - www-data ; cd /path ; touch test_www-data
su - ubuntu; cd /path ; touch test_ubuntu

if both works, the problem is elsewhere.
Btw, why do you want both to write at the same dir?
Regards
Sebastian