APACHE_RUN_USER as user?

illumilore · 06-19-2012, 08:59 PM

My question mostly follows from this dead thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-403-a-811319/

After symlinking /var/www to redirect to /home/user/www/, all I get is forbidden errors when accessing, even though ~/www and its contents have read permissions for all. The only way I've found to remediate that is to change APACHE_RUN_USER and APACHE_RUN_GROUP to equal my username, but I've heard that that could be insecure.

Is it really insecure and if so, then how do I fix the "You don't have permission to access / on this server." errors if I switch user and group back to www-data?

scandalist · 06-19-2012, 09:17 PM

Give Apache ownership permissions to said directory

Code:

chown -R www-data /home/user/www/

illumilore · 06-20-2012, 01:00 AM

That doesn't seem to work. I still end up getting forbidden, when my envvars contains

Code:

export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data
export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=www-data

and the permissions of the folder in the user dir is

Code:

$ sudo ls -la ~/www
total 16
drwxr-s--x  3 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 19 23:34 .

with /var/www symlinked to ~/www/

I made sure to restart apache2, so it should be running as user www-data, which should have full read and execute access to that folder, but it still doesn't seem to read it.