On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 08:08:14PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 07:55:38PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > > Hello Group, > > Im running apache and have /var/www as the root directory. I wanted > > to add another folder so I added var/www/file and when I try to > > access html from the directory I get access denied. I looked in > > the apachpe error.log and see Permission denied: file permission deny > > server access: /var/www/files/download.htm. > > > > So how do I add folders and set the permission to allow web access? > > thanks Jay > > Directories must have read and execute permissions for user "www-data" > (world read/execute if not owned by www-data or not with a www-data > group's permissions). Files must be readable by www-data. CGI scripts > must be executable by www-data. > > ...assuming your apache server is running as user www-data. This is the > Debian default, YMMV. > > I'd try that first. > > eg: > > $ ls -ld /var/www > drwxr-xr-x 7 root www-data 1024 May 30 00:38 /var/www > ^ ^ ^^^^^^^^ > > .../var/www is set group www-data and has read and execute permissions. > Should I be worried that my apache server is running under root. When I do a ls -ld /var/www I get drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Jun 30 20:06 /var/www And if so how can I can it??? Thanks Jay > > -- > Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself > Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! > http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org > GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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