Cronjob not running as apache

Solution 1:

There are different solutions:

1. Add your user to apache group www-data, nobody, or whatever it is called on your system. You need also to grant the group write permission.
2. Run the cron job under apache user. This can be done using a command like: sudo su apache_user -c "crontab -e". However, this may not work depending on whether it is allowed to switch to apache user and add cron jobs for apache_user.

I think point 1 should be better.

Solution 2:

It's best run the cron job as your apache user:

sudo crontab -u apache_user -e

This is a cleaner solution compared to running the job as you, because what belongs to apache should stay such. Mixing of users will bring mess and could produce problems at some point.