Christopher

[Christopher 0]

Hi, following on with your tutorial, i was editing the  " sudo nano /etc/apache2/envvars " file which had the following lines ,

export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data
export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=www-data

If you don’t know what the username is, you can use the whoami command to find it out

pi@WP:~ $ whoami
pi
I then went back to  " sudo nano /etc/apache2/envvars "  and changed 

export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data          to    APACHE_RUN_USER=pi
export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=www-data       to    APACHE_RUN_GROUP=pi

 then an the following and the following results

pi@WP:~ $ sudo chown -Rf $(pi):$(pi) /var/www/html
bash: pi: command not found
bash: pi: command not found
pi@WP:~ $ 

Please assist at your earliest convenience, much appreciated. 

Thanks. Chris

[Shahriar Shovon 5]

14 hours ago, Christopher said:

Hi, following on with your tutorial, i was editing the  " sudo nano /etc/apache2/envvars " file which had the following lines ,

export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data
export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=www-data

If you don’t know what the username is, you can use the whoami command to find it out

pi@WP:~ $ whoami
pi
I then went back to  " sudo nano /etc/apache2/envvars "  and changed 

export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data          to    APACHE_RUN_USER=pi
export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=www-data       to    APACHE_RUN_GROUP=pi

 then an the following and the following results

pi@WP:~ $ sudo chown -Rf $(pi):$(pi) /var/www/html
bash: pi: command not found
bash: pi: command not found
pi@WP:~ $ 

Please assist at your earliest convenience, much appreciated. 

Thanks. Chris

Hi Chris,
The command should be,
$ sudo chown -Rf pi:pi /var/www/html

Here, chown expects an username and a group name. 

$(pi) is used to run the pi command and substitute the result in the command sudo chown -Rf $(pi):$(pi) /var/www/html. There is no command pi. Thats why you get this error.

If you want to use command substitution here, the command will be,
$ sudo chown -Rf $(whoami):$(whoami) /var/www/html


Wishing you all the best.
Shovon