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| 459135 | 2006-05-30 09:14:00 | I've got apache set up on my ubuntu box, with the document root as /var/www. I want to be able to play round with all my web stuff from my usual user account, so I changed the permissions to ones that should let me do that. Problem is, it isn't working. I changed the /var/www directory premissions from root:root rwxr-xr-x to root:www-data rwxrwxr-x and added myself to the www-data group. what have I overlooked? I thought that should be enough, but it gives me a permission denied error when I try to create a new folder. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 459136 | 2006-05-30 10:17:00 | Are you sure the document root isn't /var/www/html? Also you need to make the permission changes recursive so that they apply to each level along the path otherwise a higher level will block you. | johnd (85) | ||
| 459137 | 2006-05-30 10:32:00 | Are you sure the document root isn't /var/www/html? It is /var/www on my system. I've created a subfolder as root then changed the owner to me so that I can work with it, but I still want to know what is wrong with the origional method. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 459138 | 2006-05-30 12:05:00 | root:root rwxr-xr-x to root:www-data I think thats your problem, the folder owner is still root. You have chgrp the folder but havn't chown'd to a user other than root. |
superuser (7693) | ||
| 459139 | 2006-05-30 14:45:00 | You'll need to chmod the folder to 775 although I think you'll be better off creating your own user directory and using that, than using the default /var/www. Also document_root is /var/www/html which is where you'll store your web pages, /var/www/cgi-bin/ is where your cgi-scripts go. If you want to create your own User Directory instead of using the default I have a few tutorials I wrote for Fedora. I'll just basically outline what you should do under your own user: mkdir $HOME/public_html chmod 701 $HOME chmod 705 $HOME/public_html Next as root we need to alter our httpd.conf file. You can use another editor instead of "vi" if you like. su -c "vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf" Inside of it we need to alter <IfModule mod_userdir.c> section to have: UserDir "disabled" UserDir enabled your_user_name UserDir public_html And then at the very end of this config file we add: <Directory "/home/*/public_html"> Options Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit </Directory> Then save the file, restart apache: su -c "/sbin/server httpd restart" And you should be now able to access your own User Directory by: localhost Since there's no index.(php|html) there, it'll probably just display an empty directory listing. If you need cgi-bin also, I can show you how to do that. Cheers, KK |
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