diff --git a/faccess.log b/faccess.log
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..174bf2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/faccess.log
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+123.123.123.123 - - [01/Jan/1970:00:00:00 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 123 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:63.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/63.0"
diff --git a/index.php b/index.php
index 973e64e..956d338 100644
--- a/index.php
+++ b/index.php
@@ -69,12 +69,11 @@ $line .= "\"";
 $line .= "\n";
 
 // prepare error message
-$user = shell_exec( "whoami" );
 $emsg = "The webserver has no permissions to read and/or write $file.<br>";
 $emsg .= "How to fix it:<br>";
-$emsg .= "~# touch $file<br>";
-$emsg .= "~# chown $user $file<br>";
-$emsg .= "~# chmod 644 $file";
+$emsg .= "1. also copy faccess.log into same directory";
+$emsg .= "2. ~# chown www-data $file<br>";
+$emsg .= "3. ~# chmod 644 $file";
 
 // delete oldest log line if max is reached
 if( $log = file( $file ) ) {