Ubuntu 10.04 Apache Configuration for Websites

Looking at a basic Ubuntu 10.04 server setup, Apache points to /var/www for where to it looks for files to serve up. The default apache user is www.

I'm just trying to set up a plain old WordPress blog. Should I just dump the files into /var/www/ as root or www? User www seems inconvenient since I won't log in as the user, but I guess I can chown the files in /var/www to www. Not that I would log in as root either, but what is the recommended user who should own the /var/www files?

Thanks for the help.

From serverfault completenoob

• The apache user (default www-data on ubuntu) needs to own files and directories it must write to, the uploads directory etc.

  I prefer that apache doesn't have write access to any files it doesn't need to, though if you're going to be editing the files regularly then it's probably not a great idea to be using the root account for that either. In those cases I'd recommend keeping the files owned by your ordinary user account.

  From theotherreceive