SFTP with admin user to migrate uploads folder content

trellis
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Now just tried with admin user and SFTP and realized the admin does not seem to have the permissions to create all the directories inside the uploads folder:

    Command:	cd "/srv/www/domain.com/shared/uploads"
    Response: 	New directory is: "/srv/www/domain.com/shared/uploads"
    Command:	mkdir "js_composer"
    Error:        	mkdir /srv/www/domain.com/shared/uploads/js_composer: permission denied
    Command:	mkdir "/srv/www/domain.com/shared/uploads/js_composer"
    Error:        	mkdir /srv/www/domain.com/shared/uploads/js_composer: permission denied
    Command:	cd "/srv/www/domain.com/shared/uploads/js_composer"
    Error:        	Directory /srv/www/domain.com/shared/uploads/js_composer: no such file or directory

ownership and permissions are:

admin@domain:/srv/www/domain.com/current/web/app/uploads$ ls -la
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 6 web www-data 4096 Aug 23 12:36 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 web www-data 4096 Aug  6 03:26 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 web www-data 4096 Aug 10 07:30 2016
drwxr-xr-x 2 web www-data 4096 Aug 23 12:36 buddydrive
drwxr-xr-x 2 web www-data 4096 Aug 23 12:36 buddydrive-thumbnails
drwxr-xr-x 2 web www-data 4096 Aug 10 07:30 wp-sync-db

but I checked and admin cannot create directories. Not after ssh-ing into the server, not after accessing the server using SFTP. Ideas why? Done on purpose and should I only upload via media uploader and just now add uploads folder content to repo and not have it ignored maybe?

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Why not use a nice uploads sync playbook?

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You can also do a two/three step process:

  1. SFTP uploads to /home/admin/uploads
  2. SSH in as admin
  3. sudo su (use your admin pw) to become root
  4. chown -R web:www-data /home/admin/uploads
  5. su web (now you’re the web user)
  6. Move/copy uploads to proper dir now

edit: or some variation of that.

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