: Apache 403 error despite group permission I have a NAS running Linux with a Apache 2.2. I want the apache process (running as user nobody) to run as different group "users" to read some files.

@Nimeshi995

Apache2 Environment Variables

It would be useful to know what Linux version and release distro the NAS is running due to the fact that Apache2 can be setup in various ways depending on what version of linux your using.

Sometimes you need to edit etc/apache2/envvars

gedit /etc/apache2/envvars

Change:

export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data
export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=www-data


to:
#export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data
export APACHE_RUN_USER=nobody #export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=www-data
export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=nobody


Directory Ownership

Additionally you will then be required to update the ownership of www folder which can normally in /var/www but again can vary from Linux to another.

Once you have located the folder you will need to do a chown on it to make nobody the owner of the folder. You can do this by running: chown nobody:nobody -R /var/www

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