On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Brian Corrigan wrote:

> I have a linux box set up to run as a web server.  I want to be able
> to FTP HTML docs into the Apache html directory.  Unfortuanately you
> cant ftp as root, so i cant get rights to the directory.  hwat is the
> best way to set up the box so that I can ftp stuff to this directory.

I think you should make a user www, who owns all html files. You can then
dftp with username www. If you do this, you could also have httpd run as
user www (There is a setting in the apache config file to do this, apache
still needs to be started as root).

Frank

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