Voytek Eymont wrote: > I've altered the file path from /var/whatever to /home/www > after I started Apache, browser says /permission denied' > error log has 'file permiss. deny server access' > who should own these file, user 'apache' ? directory owwner ?
The user that httpd runs as (usually httpd, amazingly enough). Do: ps uxwa | grep http to find out, or look in httpd.conf for the following: User XXX Group YYY > what permissions do I need to set for public web pages ? Readable by the httpd process. Suggestion: login to your server as the same user that the httpd runs as, and try to access the web files. Any problems will show up immediately ;) > is that what chmod is for ? yes. > can I chmod recusrively all /home/adomain.com/* ? yes. try 'man chmod' and pay attention to the -R option > do I need web-path directoried chmod'ed with excecute permissions ? of course. otherwise the directories cannot be traversed. HTH|HAND|rick -- _________________________________ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should be changed regularly and for the same reason. -- Gerry Brooks (in the Toronto Globe & Mail) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
