Re: OT?:Proper owner of html files in Apache
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:13:25PM -0400, Ken Januski wrote:
> What I'm trying to find out is if root.root is a good idea? I assume it
> is or it wouldn't be the default. It just seems odd to me to have to
> become root in order to write either a html or cgi page.
What I did on my system was to create a new group, www-admin, change
everything under /var/www to root.www-admin ownership and made it
group writable with the directories sgid (so new files will also be
owned by group www-admin). Then just add your main user account (and
anyone else who should be working there) to the www-admin group and you
should be set.
As has been mentioned earlier, though, pretty much any ownership other
than www-data should be OK.
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