Unable rsync to my_webapp (permissions)

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What app is this about, and its version: my_webapp
What YunoHost version are you running: 12.1.39
What type of hardware are you using: Other ARM board

Describe your issue

i’m still upgrading and reconfiguring some webapps, some of which i used to administer using the old ‘admin’ user.

i’m trying to set permissions so that i can rsync my static site to my webapp directory, with rsync using ssh as my new main user (who has admin perms).

i’m unable to set perms on /var/www/my_webapp/ such that i can write any files there.

• i tried adding my user to group www-data, and giving the group write permissions, but no dice (and not ideal).
• i tried giving ownership of the whole /my_webapp directory to my user, but rsync still fails.
• if i manually ssh in to the server as my user, then try to touch a file inside /var/www/my_webapp/ it also fails due to perms.

am i missing something about how permissions are set up with my_webapp apps?

thanks for any pointers!

Share relevant logs or error messages

no logs for my query

[mouse]

is it perhaps ok to give ssh access to the webapp user?

(but that wouldn’t be ideal, i already have ssh keys set up for my main user)

[mouse]

i got it working, i had a symlink that didn’t match the alias directive in nginx.