RE: [techtalk] directory that is writable by web server process

2000-10-23 Thread m20bi
> /bin/mkdir ./foo > chgrp nobody ./foo/ > chmod 770 ./foo/ Thanks so much Eric. The mod_dav module on my Apache server requires a directory that is writable by the Apache process. I tried all variations of directories and still I got "could not open the lock database" errors in the httpd error_l

Re: [techtalk] directory that is writable by web server process

2000-10-22 Thread Eric Richard Turner
OOPS! I only gave read and execute permissions... chmod 770 ./foo/ On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Eric Richard Turner wrote: > chmod 550 ./foo/ -- My public OpenPGP key can be found at http://www.wwu.edu/~turnere/turnere.asc ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL P

Re: [techtalk] directory that is writable by web server process

2000-10-22 Thread Eric Richard Turner
Assuming the web server is running as nobody, make the directory, change the group on the directory, then change the permissions. Here's an example of making directory foo which is writeable by the httpd process: /bin/mkdir ./foo chgrp nobody ./foo/ chmod 550 ./foo/ If at all possible you should

Re: [techtalk] directory that is writable by web server process

2000-10-22 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 06:27:44PM -0400, m20bi wrote: > I need to make a directory to which my web server process (httpd, I think) > has read/write access. How do I go about doing this? I'm using RedHat 6.2 > and Apache 1.3.12. Barbara The httpd process (which is, indeed, the correct one) runs a

[techtalk] directory that is writable by web server process

2000-10-22 Thread m20bi
I need to make a directory to which my web server process (httpd, I think) has read/write access. How do I go about doing this? I'm using RedHat 6.2 and Apache 1.3.12. Barbara ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/