Thanks for your replies. I eventually mangaged to find out the group and owner of the process that runs web2py. It is uwsgi:uwsgi. Chowning as suggested did work.
presumably the rocket server version of web2py does run as root. If this is unadvisable as Kenneth suggests should something be mentioned in the book on deploying rocket. On Nov 23, 3:54 am, pbreit <[email protected]> wrote: > Why not set ownership of web2py files to whatever uwsgi is expecting?

