Write outside of document root

I am trying to get Blesta working, it needs to write outside of the document root. How can I get it to allow writing to /var/www/uploads and /var/www/logs instead of inside of /var/www/html/uploads.

chmod the locations to 777 or change ownership for those paths to the web user (“apache” if Fortification is in use). This can be done in the File Manager under Actions > Properties. Change the User field to “apache”.

Because it’s outside the approot (/var/www/html), a Manifest would not permit you to set these paths as additional writable locations.

That worked great, thank you!