Cant set Permissions (tarball)

[MMALounge]

I cant find a valid Webserver-user, i just found a user called www-data but the server drops a "user doesñt exist" Please Help

[d00p]

Well what distribution? Did you install a Webserver (Apache, nginx)?

[MMALounge]

vor 11 Stunden schrieb d00p:

Well what distribution? Did you install a Webserver (Apache, nginx)?

I use Apache2 and Debian9 

[d00p]

Then the user www-data should definitely exist

[MMALounge]

vor 15 Minuten schrieb d00p:

Then the user www-data should definitely exist

Yeah it exists but while setting permissions it says its not

[d00p]

Are you acting as root user on the machine?

[MMALounge]

Yes