On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 07:03:05PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 07:55:38PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote:
> > Hello Group,
> > Im running apache and have /var/www as the root directory. I wanted
> > to add another folder so I added var/www/file and when I try to
> > access html from the directory I get access denied. I looked in
> > the apachpe error.log and see Permission denied: file permission deny
> > server access: /var/www/files/download.htm.
> >
> > So how do I add folders and set the permission to allow web access?
> > thanks Jay
>
> chmod -R a+r /var/www/files
Keep in mind that 'chomd -R' follows sym links so it can cause serious issues
if you have a link to a downloads direcotry somewhere else on your box.
-tom
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