Making www-data user id customizable? about nginx HOT 7 CLOSED

I'm using Arch Linux and I don't even have "www-data" user. Arch Linux have an "http" user with id 33 (and I'm running webserver as my own user to avoid permissions problems regardless). That's why I was looking for a more flexible solution.

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There's no way to customize it via environment variable because it's set in Dockerfile. To fix permissions problem follow these instructions

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Wouldn't this work? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34322631/how-to-pass-arguments-within-docker-compose, it seems to be already possible to pass variables to docker-compose.yml .

Added: docker/compose#2163 more "official" source :) .

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Why not just create a group on your host machine with ID 82 as described here?

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It works and I'm using it right now, but it doesn't feel "right". Maybe we could achieve the same without mixed owners - that's what I'm suggesting, but I'm not sure if it's a good solution, just a suggestion.

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The ID 82 is a standard gid/uid for www-data in alpine linux and since you're using nginx with php, the user should be the same in both containers, see Dockerfile of the official php-fpm image that we use for drupal-php (82 uid/gid is used).

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@lukasz-zaroda you can add alpine-www-data or alpine-http group. Or you can override d4d containers via docker-compose build. An issue-related comment in other thread.

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