Help on chown ?

your_shadow03 · 11-21-2009, 02:04 AM

I want to provide write access to a user on apache DOCROOT.
I have DOCROOT under /var/www_91.
I tried with the following:

Code:

usermod -G apache john
id john
[root@mont ~]# id ben
uid=500(john) gid=500(john) groups=500(john),48(apache)
[root@mont ~]#
cd /var
chown -R apache:ben www_91

Is it enough?
Shall I also do :

Code:

chown -R apache:ben /var  ---<<< Pls Suggest?

EricTRA · 11-21-2009, 02:16 AM

Hello,

I might be wrong but shouldn't the user be member of the www-data group instead of the apache group? Not an expert in Apache but I seem to remember coming across a similar issue and solved it by making user member of the www-data group. All depends of how it's setup of course.

Kind regards,

Eric

your_shadow03 · 11-21-2009, 02:39 AM

www-data is for Ubuntu whereas apache user and group is for Red Hat.

EricTRA · 11-21-2009, 02:43 AM

Ah ok, thanks for the info, I'm used to Debian, hence the confusion.

Kind regards,

Eric

your_shadow03 · 11-21-2009, 02:58 AM

Eric..I need your help on PHP..Can You please look into the programming section?
Thanks.