permissions - Setup web folder for multiple developers and Apache

I'm trying to setup a web folder on LAMP with Ubuntu 14.04 where :

1. Apache/PHP can read everything inside. (r-x for folders and r-- for files)


2. Multiple users in a "devs" group can do anything inside. (rwx for folders and rw- for files)


3. Newly created folders and files have the same properties as above.

I know there is this answer that looked pretty good at first, until i tried to access from the web and i got a 403 permission denied.

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Should i use only one "dev" user that can modify the web folder ?

I could also use ACL ?

EDIT : Not a duplicate of https://serverfault.com/a/357109/354883 because it doesn't solve the problem for newly created files.

MY SOLUTION: Since i didn't found anything on the standard permission system that could do exactly what i wanted, i checked ACL.

What i did:

• sudo apt-get install acl You also may wanna mount your parition so it enables ACL


• sudo setfacl -Rm g:coders:rwx,g:www-data:r-x,o:--- webfolder


• sudo setfacl -Rm d:g:coders:rwx,d:g:www-data:r-x,d:o:--- webfolder