setting permissions
 

there is a user gws on my server and I want to give him rights to upload the file in /var/www/vhosts/servername/httpdocs

Thanks & best regards

Try the man page for chown or chmod. With chown you can change ownership of the file and with chmod you can set the permissions for the file.

Can you please write any example

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What are the current ownerships & permissions on the directory, who's
the owner of the apache process?


Cheers,
Tink

I have dedicated server and the network administrator just installed the apache,tomcat,oracle and other softwares for onetime

how can I know that who is the owner of the apache process?

I have root access

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Do you have shell access to the machine? If you don't - ask the
admin. If you do - 'ps -ef |egrep "(apache|httpd)"'.

And 'ls -ld /var/www/vhosts/servername/httpdocs'


Cheers,
Tink

Usually the owner of an Apache process is indicated within the httpd.conf file. I would probably bank that root owns it.. The www directory usually is owned by root, I would do an

ls -ld /var/www/vhosts/servername/httpdocs

This will show the permissions of the httpdocs..

this is the result:
drwxr-x--- 22 gws psaserv 4096 Dec 21 19:32 /var/www/vhosts/servername/httpdocs

Well, this tells you that gws owns httpdocs and psaserv is the group.. The drwx tells me that user has full permissions, and the r-x tells me that the group has read and execute permissions.. To change these perms do the following:

7 = rwx
6=rw
5=rx
4=r
0= nothing

# chmod 777 httpdocs - gives read,write,execute perms for owner,group and other

# chmod 700 httpdocs - gives read,write,execute for owner only

ohhh by using chmod 700 httpdocs the following msg appeared on my website
Please help me to solve this problem


Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /eguide/reports/index.html on this server.


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Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) Server at www.globalsteelweb.com Port 80

do an ls -l /eguide/reports/index.html and paste the output..

Actually do a ls -ld of /eguide then /eguide/reports too..

thanks actually I solved the problem in the way to delete and upload again the /report/directory now its working

thanks for your cooperation

thanks again & best regards