cap deploy:setup creates the release folder with root as owner

Question

I am using capistrano to deplay my rails application on a Ubuntu server.

I already logged into the server and created a folder /webapps/myapp, but no sub folders from here.

Then I run

cap deploy:setup

No errors so far, so i run

cap deploy:setup

Now I get this message

You do not have permissions to write to /webapps/myapp/releases

I can get around this by logging in to the server and change the owner of releases, I just wonder why it is not created with the user I use for deploying? Is this how it work or am I missing something?

Answer 1

In your deploy.rb file you should specify the deployment user and if he has sudo privilege.

set :user, "william"
set :use_sudo, false

Giving sudo privilege isn't recommended, but this option exists.

The directory to which you deploy should be already owned by the deployment user "william"