App file ownership in production

[sdc50]

I just updated the demo server to 1.2, and then updated one of the apps. I when through the steps outlined Installing Apps in Production docs including running python setup.py install, and running chown -R apache:apache /var/www/tethys/. However, after installing the app I would get an internal server error. After digging around a bit I realized that most of the other apps where only linked rather than copied into the src code, so I ran through the installation steps again but this time ran python setup.py develop and it worked. 

This is what I think is happening:

• When running python setup.py install as root, the app source files are copied from /var/www/tethys/apps/ to /usr/lib/tethys/src/tethys_apps/tethysapp/ and are owned by root
• Running chown -R apache:apache /var/www/tethys/ therefore has no effect on the copied files
• However, if the source files are linked then changing the ownership of /var/www/tethys/ would give the apache user access to those files, and that's why it worked for me

If I'm understanding correctly then I think that step 7 of the the docs need to be updated to:

 chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/tethys/apps/ to /usr/lib/tethys/src/tethys_apps/tethysapp/

I'm happy to put in an issue and make the change, but I just wanted to be sure I was understanding things correctly first.

[Nathan Swain]

That sounds good to me. I have always installed apps in production using the develop command so I could easily update them, so I've never encountered this issue before. Thanks for investigating it.

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Nathan Swain