Ah, we were thinking along the same lines! ;) I had just initiated a local install inside .../www/public when I received your email, which is in fact the DocumentRoot for this website, and did: $ chmod -R www-data:www-data context So ConTeXt is installed in .../www/public/context. Now I can source: $ . .../www/public/context/tex/setuptex .../www/public/context/tex and it all works. Many thanks, Luigi, for all of your suggestions. On 17Jun16, luigi scarso wrote:

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On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Pavneet Arora wrote:

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That is really the crux of the issue, since www-data does *not* have a login shell. It is used only by apache.

Can setuptex be made to point to the home directory explicitly where the website is housed, e.g., '/home/wwwuser' with user 'wwwuser'?

Is it an option to make a context installation only for apache ? I mean a context that is owned by www-data (if this is the apache user), into a folder readable by apache.

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