Permissions for webcam access through Apache - apache

Question

I am trying to capture an image through a webcam and display it on a webpage but I am getting "permission denied errors"
I am running apache with the following user/group
/etc/apache2/envvars :
export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data
export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=www-data
In the html code i have the request:
myRequest.open("GET", "/cgi-bin/getImage1.cgi", true);
myRequest.send();
In /usr/lib/cgi-bin I have the file: getImage1.cgi
#!/bin/bash
rm image1.jpg
fswebcam -r 640x400 --no-banner --deinterlace -q -d /dev/video0 --jpeg 95 image1.jpg
The file and directories permissions are:
In /usr/lib drwxrwxrwx 2 root www-data 4096 May 14 19:37 cgi-bin
In /usr/lib/cgi-bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 115 May 14 18:51 getImage1.cgi
In /dev crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81,0 May 14 18:02 video0
User www-data is a member of the following groups:
$ id www-data
uid=33(www-data) gid=33(www-data) groups=33(www-data),44(video)
When i run the web page i get the following error code:
rm: cannot remove 'image1.jpg': No such file or directory
Error opening device: /dev/video0
open: Permission denied
Unable to find a source module that can read /dev/video0.
End of script output before headers: getImage1.cgi,
The error implies that it is executing the script but that the user does not have sufficient permissions to access the /dev/video0.
The apache user should be www-data which is a member of both www-data and video groups, so it should have access to the /usr/lib/cgi-bin directory, getImage1.cgi file, and the /dev/video0 webcam.
If I execute the script from the console it runs fine.
I would appreciate if anyone can offer suggestions.