On Thursday 13 June 2019 05:09:35 pm Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2019-06-13 16:44 (UTC-0400): > > Felix Miata wrote: > > > > Alias /urlDebSub/ "/LocalPathHostingTheDebs/" > > > > I've done that to /etc apache2/apache2.conf, and restarted it. > > > > Then because the web servers root page is at /var/www/html, and gene > > is the head of the data, I touched urlDebSub in /var/www/html/gene, > > made it > > Can touch create a new directory, or only a file? > > urlDebSub is an alias seen in URLs on the web, not a real directory on > the Apache server. > > e.g. My screenshots are in a directory named screenshots. The alias > name in default-server.conf is /SS/, so the URL to reach the > screenshots I host reads www.mywebsite.com/SS/. > > > owned by www-data:www-data, and modified gene/index.html > > accordingly. No errors, but blank page. Suspect a perms breakage > > someplace. I get perfect results, but www-data:www-data can't. And > > I can't make the whole chain a 0777. Or shouldn't. 0755 should do > > it, but doesn't seem to. > > Probably need something like this: > > <Directory "/LocalPathHostingTheDebs"> > Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks > AllowOverride None > <IfModule !mod_access_compat.c> > Require all granted > </IfModule> > <IfModule mod_access_compat.c> > Order allow,deny > Allow from all > </IfModule> > </Directory> looks good, but the problem is, only gene=user 1000 has any rights to follow that path, so this access must be done as gene, not the default www-data:www-data, or even as the parent session of apache2.. Is there an "as user=gene" command that can be used only for this stanza that I can put in this stanza? root cannot go up this path to see anything, neither can www-data.
Is this a place where making gene a member of group www-data would help? No, I just looked and I am already a member of that group. Help, I've built a sandbox not even root can get into!!! And since apache2 doesn't believe in man pages, what do they use instead of? -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>