Should I add the user www-data? Trying to get Rails off the ground

Solution 1:

You can find the user that your webserver is using by executing ps aux | grep httpd

if httpd doesn't show any information, you can try using ps aux | grep apache

There should also be a user defined in your httpd.conf file.

One way to find this is egrep -iw --color=auto 'user|group' /path/to/httpd/conf