solancer

// Adding current user to www-data
sudo adduser $USER www-data

//change ownership to user:www-data and 
sudo chown $USER:www-data -R /var/www/html
sudo chmod u=rwX,g=srX,o=rX -R /var/www/html

// change file permissions of existing files and folders to 755/644
sudo find /var/www/html -type d -exec chmod g=rwxs "{}" \;

spalladino

# Backup
docker exec CONTAINER /usr/bin/mysqldump -u root --password=root DATABASE > backup.sql

# Restore
cat backup.sql | docker exec -i CONTAINER /usr/bin/mysql -u root --password=root DATABASE

stefanbc

HOWTO

To set up permissions on /var/www where your files are served from by default:

sudo addgroup webmasters
sudo adduser $USER webmasters
sudo chown -R root:webmasters /var/www
sudo find /var/www -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
sudo find /var/www -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;