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Re: web page problem



On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:58:05 +0200
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 08:46:51AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 06:11:03PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:  
> > > looks good, but the problem is, only gene=user 1000 has any
> > > rights to follow that path, so this access must be done as gene,
> > > not the default www-data:www-data, or even as the parent session
> > > of apache2..  
> > 
> > So change the ownership/permissions on the content.  To serve it up
> > from a web server, you need to make it world-readable.  This means
> > that directories require the x bit, and files require the r bit,
> > for the "other" (right-most characters in ls -l output, least
> > significant bits in the octal mode).  
> 
> Perhaps group readable (074x, x being usually 0) and setting the
> file's group would suffice?
> 
> That's my standard setup: the files belong to a "www admin" (can be a
> regular user, can be root) and have the group www-data. So the web
> server hasn't (usually) write access to normal htmls and cgi-bins
> (oh, for the last, execute access for the group is necessary, so 075x.
> 
> Better safe than...
> 

Even safer, post/run it on someone else's web server. Web space is no
longer given away free by (most) ISPs, but a small amount can be had for
'hobby' money now.

-- 
Joe


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