Need help with Apache Permission?

your_shadow03 · 11-20-2009, 10:25 AM

I have a CentOS Machine running with Web Services. I have an application to run which needs a user permission to write to /var/www ( DOCROOT) directory.As I can see that apache user can only write/ access the DOCROOT(correct me if I am wrong?). As of now my directory strcuture is:

Code:

[root@mon35 www]# ls -la
total 92
drwxr-xr-x 11 root      root 4096 Nov 20 18:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 root      root 4096 Nov 20 17:50 ..
drwxrwsr-x  2 bent       bent  4096 Oct 30 22:20 becon
drwxr-xr-x  2 root      root 4096 Jan 16  2008 cgi-bin
drwxr-xr-x  3 root      root 4096 Nov 20 17:46 error
drwxr-xr-x  2 root      root 4096 Jan 16  2008 html
drwxr-xr-x  3 root      root 4096 Nov 20 17:48 icons
drwxrwxr-x  2 bent       bent  4096 Nov 20 18:44 imgs
-rw-r--r--  1 bent       bent  3771 Oct 30 22:20 index.html
drwxrwsr-x  2 bent       bent  4096 Oct 30 22:20 js
drwxr-xr-x 14 root      root 4096 Nov 20 17:48 manual
drwxr-xr-x  2 webalizer root 4096 Nov 20 19:02 usage
-rw-rw-r--  1 bent      bent  9908 Oct 30 22:20 watcher.php
[root@mon35 www]#

How can I give permission to bent user to write to www directory.
Pls Suggest.

centosboy · 11-20-2009, 11:49 AM

[QUOTE=your_shadow03;3764049]I have a CentOS Machine running with Web Services. I have an application to run which needs a user permission to write to /var/www ( DOCROOT) directory.As I can see that apache user can only write/ access the DOCROOT(correct me if I am wrong?). As of now my directory strcuture is:

[code]
[root@mon35 www]# ls -la
total 92
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Nov 20 18:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Nov 20 17:50 ..
drwxrwsr-x 2 bent bent 4096 Oct 30 22:20 becon
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 16 2008 cgi-bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 20 17:46 error
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 16 2008 html
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 20 17:48 icons
drwxrwxr-x 2 bent bent 4096 Nov 20 18:44 imgs
-rw-r--r-- 1 bent bent 3771 Oct 30 22:20 index.html
drwxrwsr-x 2 bent bent 4096 Oct 30 22:20 js
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Nov 20 17:48 manual
drwxr-xr-x 2 webalizer root 4096 Nov 20 19:02 usage
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bent bent 9908 Oct 30 22:20 watcher.php
[root@mon35 www]#

How can I give permission to bent user to write to www directory.
Pls Suggest

change the file ownership so apache can write to www dir.
any user that access via web is running as the apache user anyway

your_shadow03 · 11-20-2009, 12:12 PM

Sorry for the double Post.
Moderator..I am sorry for the same.