Re: Apache2 is serving php files it does not own

[Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>]

debian-apache is not a support list, CCing to debian-user

On Monday 08 January 2007 19:50, Virgil E. Alderson wrote:
> After an update apache2 all of a sudden is serving php files it
> does not own or have rights to read or write to. Up to this point i
> have had my files owned by user: root and group: www-data, and all
> i had to do was remove group rw rights on the file for apache2 not
> to serve the php file. But all of sudden apache is serving  the
> file regardles of who owns it and with 000 permissions. I tried a
> test with a .png file in the same directory and that works fine,
> removing -r from its group www-data denies access to it. Doing a ps
> -ef shows that apache is running as www-data, i also consoled in as
> www-data and tried to cat the php file and I do get denied as
> expected. Any ideas? I am using etch and apache 2 with php5

Maybe the pages are still cached in your browser or your proxy. Try 
reloading / clearing the cache / disabling the proxy.

Cheers,
Stefan