[SOLVED] setting permissions on /var/www

[Jean]

Hello,

I installed hardy server. I get an error from my php scripts fopen() permission denied.
Exactly what are the commands I need to
1) enable apache to read/write to /var/www and
2) enable myself (jean) to write there (I don't like to chmod files everytime I create something).

Probably some chown stuff but what exactly?

Thanks.

Info:

jean@server:~$ l /var/www
total 26316
-rwxr-xr-x 1 nobody nogroup  475 2006-06-18 22:51 404.html
-rwxr-xr-x 1 nobody nogroup  766 2000-08-09 18:50 favicon.ico
-rwxr-xr-x 1 nobody nogroup  711 2008-07-27 04:21 .htaccess
etc.

contents of /etc/apache2/envvars

export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data
export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=www-data
export APACHE_PID_FILE=/var/run/apache2.pid

[Jean]

Re: setting permissions on /var/www

*bump*

[Nate]

Re: setting permissions on /var/www

According to this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=556819 you could consider doing:

chmod -R 755 /var/www

However, you want to make sure you don't have exploitable code on any of your sites because it could be a security risk.

You could also look here: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ser...s-var-www.html which details some of the user/group details you might need to setup.

[Jean]

Re: setting permissions on /var/www

Thanks Nate.

It's solved.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...15#post5606815