On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 04:43:01PM -0400, Eric Covener wrote: > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Greg Platt - Platt Consultants > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I remember someone mentioning in a post I made weeks ago that the ownerships > > and permissions on my web directories seemed odd. His remarks suggested he > > thought all web directories ought to be owned by www-data and have > > permissions of 755. > > Generally your webserver (www-data) userid shouldn't own the content > it's serving (or the directory it lives in) > > I think you're taking the packaging decisions of various > distributions to heart a little too much. You should be able to quite > easily change a DocumentRoot as you move from host to host.
He *did* say he was coming from Red Hat 7, so I can understand that he might have developed an allergy to reorganizing things, since RHL will put them right back again the first time you sneeze. I don't recall Debian being so, um, insistent, but it's been years since I used either and things may have changed. Yes, I would say that the webserver should not own any file it is not expected to write. The owner of a file owns its permission mask and can change its own access at will. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite.
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