Merge pull request #1985 from foxmask/master

Rights access to the folders of the project

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diff --git a/docs/en/user/installation.rst b/docs/en/user/installation.rst
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@@ -154,3 +154,30 @@ After reloading or restarting nginx, you should now be able to access wallabag a
 .. note::
 
     When you want to import large file into wallabag, you need to add this line in your nginx configuration ``client_max_body_size XM; # allows file uploads up to X megabytes``.
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+Rights access to the folders of the project
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+
+Test Environment
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+When we just want to test wallabag, we just run the command ``php bin/console server:run --env=prod`` to start our wallabag instance and everything will go smoothly because the user who started the project can access to the current folder naturally, without any problem.
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+Production Environment
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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+As soon as we use Apache or Nginx to access to our wallabag instance, and not from the command  ``php bin/console server:run --env=prod`` to start it, we should take care to grant the good rights on the good folders to keep safe all the folders of the project.
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+To do so, the folder name, known as ``DocumentRoot`` (for apache) or ``root`` (for Nginx), has to be absolutely accessible by the Apache/Nginx user. Its name is generally ``www-data``, ``apache`` or ``nobody`` (depending on linux system used).
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+So the folder ``/var/www/wallabag/web`` has to be accessible by this last one. But this could be not enough if we just care about this folder, because we could meet a blank page or get an error 500 when trying to access to the homepage of the project.
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+This is due to the fact that we will need to grant the same rights access on the folder ``/var/www/wallabag/var`` like those we gave on the folder ``/var/www/wallabag/web``. Thus, we fix this problem with the following command:
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+.. code-block:: bash
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+   chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/wallabag/var
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