Pre-installation permissions - udermod and chown error

[Yohan]

My Setup

Dedicated Server
I setup the server with developer
CentOS 7.8.2003, Apache 2.4.46, PHP 7.4.10
Magento 2.4

Error on pre-installation permissions

On the guide I copied and run

find var generated vendor pub/static pub/media app/etc -type f -exec chmod g+w {} + && find var generated vendor pub/static pub/media app/etc -type d -exec chmod g+ws {} + && chown -R :www-data . && chmod u+x bin/magento

but I got this -> chown: invalid group: ‘:www-data’

I tried

usermod -g www-data username

-> usermod: group 'www-data' does not exist

[digitalstartup]

Apache running on CentOS is slightly different from Apache on Ubuntu.

The instructions you’ve used are for Ubuntu, not CentOS. I believe you need to replace www-data with apache. I can’t remember. We don’t do much stuff on CentOS here.

[Yohan]

I see. Do you think using Ubuntu is better than CentOS for running Magento 2?

[digitalstartup]

Is Apple better than Android for making phone calls? It doesn’t really matter. You go with whatever you’re used to using. However, I have found Ubuntu/Apache better documented online than other setups - Which is the setup I always use in my videos.

[Yohan]

I got the point. Noted Ubuntu/Apache has better document. Thanks Craig!