jason is yourself? The last line just shows that you are the user running grep.

Just look in httpd.conf for User [whatever]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:24 AM, neridaj <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Running ps aux | grep httpd returned the following:
>
> root      5886  0.0  4.0 205960 20460 ?        S    20:33   0:05
> gedit /home/jason/Desktop/httpd.conf sudo gedit /etc/apache2/
> apache2.conf
> jason     7801  0.0  0.1   7452   880 pts/0    R+   22:08   0:00 grep
> httpd
>
> I ran  chown -R jason '/var/www/cake_1_2/app/tmp' and I still get
> "Your tmp directory is NOT writable."
>
> The only way I can set the permissions to writable is by chmod 777.
>
> Thanks for the help so far,
>
> J
>
> On Feb 3, 10:24 am, brian <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If you have terminal access:
>>
>> grep 'User ' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
>>
>> that'll likely show you something along the lines of:
>> User apache
>> User httpd
>> etc.
>>
>> or:
>> ps aux | grep httpd
>>
>> You should see the user in the 1st column
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:31 PM,neridaj<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm using Linux.
>>
>> > On Feb 3, 12:00 am, Lakshmi <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>>
>> >> Are you using Windows or Linux?  If windows, please install a web server
>> >> like XAMPP.  Will help you have both CakePHP and MySQL.
>>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Lakshmi
>>
>> >> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:09 PM,neridaj<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >> > Hello,
>>
>> >> > I'm trying to set things up for CakePHP and was unsure how to figure
>> >> > out who the web server user is, and how to then change the permissions
>> >> > for the tmp directory to make it writable by that web server user.
>>
>> >> > Thanks for any help,
>>
>> >> > J
> >
>

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