... to see what exactly apache sees?
Richard Geddes wrote: > U, > > Thanks... restarting or reloading seemed to apply the changes made to > /etc/group file. > > Is there a way to dump to screen the apache "environment stuff" to > what exactly apache sees? I looked at the man pages for apache2 and > apache2ctl searching for 'environment' ... no matches. > > R > > Udo Rader wrote: >> On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 11:08 -0500, Richard Geddes wrote: >> >>> Thanks for the response. >>> >>> I set up a directory under the main DocumentRoot called test >>> >>> drwxr-xr-x 2 rgeddes rgeddes 80 2008-02-18 15:18 test >>> >>> and it appeared in a directory listing in the webpage of my main >>> DocumentRoot. >>> >>> Changed permissions as follows: >>> >>> drwxr-x--- 2 rgeddes rgeddes 80 2008-02-18 15:18 test >>> >>> and test disappears from the webpage (this makes sense) >>> >>> changed group as follows: >>> >>> drwxr-x--- 2 rgeddes www-data 80 2008-02-18 15:18 test >>> >>> and test appears in the webpage (this makes sense) as the servers are >>> running as www-data. >>> >>> Now if I change the group back to: >>> >>> drwxr-x--- 2 rgeddes rgeddes 80 2008-02-18 15:18 test >>> >>> and I add www-data to the rgeddes group in /etc/group, the directory >>> fails to show up. This does not make sense to me as www-data is part >>> of the rgeddes group and rgeddes has r-x permissions. >>> >>> Is there a reason why www-data is not being granted rgeddes group >>> permissions? >>> >> >> restart Apache. Apache, like any other UNIX process "rembers" some basic >> "environmental" stuff, like the (secondary) group membership(s) of the >> user it runs under. >> >> Restarting Apache makes it "refetch" this kind data. >> >>
