I'm trying to setup my server to run php-nuke. The install itself is not the problem more the 'howto set permissions and how to do it right'
My server is next to the client I use so (for now) I don't need ftp to upload files, I can do with fish (or putty) to get them to /var/www/html on the server.
Problem is that I can only upload files to /var/www/... if I'm logged into the server as root. I guess that can't be the right way, so I've setup a new user on the server simply called 'web' (bin/bash). If I log into the server as 'web' I get no write acces to /var/www/ How do I set this up or is it normal to do these tasks as root?
If setting up FTP (server can run FTP-server no prob) is an easier way, please tell me. In the near future more people will have to get acces to /var/www/ for uploading stuff so I need to get this down as well.

Any help or explanation on how to do this right on a linux server is very welcome since I'm clueless and just can't find it on google!

Regards

For security reasons, the files in /var/www can only be written to by root. What I do is just upload the files I need with my regular user account to /home/user and then log in as root and move the files from /home/user to /var/www/html.

It takes a little more work but I have root logins disabled via ssh. Another thing you could do, which I'm not sure how appropriate it is, is to change the group that /var/www/* belongs to. Then add your normal user account to that group so you have write access to the directories.

Thanx for clearing that up!
Whenever the time comes that other people upload stuff to the server using ftp, I need to finally copy it to /var/www/ I guess.
Well anyway I now know that using root to get the stuff installed is the right way.

Thanx!