make a folder readable

evensen · 12-29-2004, 02:03 AM

hi. How do i make a folder with other folders and files readable for all users ? Its so boring givin`read permission on every file and folder. Need a command so i give the entire folder with content read permissions

zoiks · 12-29-2004, 02:09 AM

Sorry if I misunderstand, but it sounds like you want to make a folder, and everything in it, including subfolders, etc., readable to all users. You can do that with the command

chmod -R a+r /folder/name/here

evensen · 12-29-2004, 02:12 AM

yes, that is what i mean.
Thank You

evensen · 12-29-2004, 02:15 AM

but i still get 403 Forbidden when trying to access one of the sub folders using my web browser. The files i want to make accessable is within my public_html folder. Any other sugestions ?

PBSchmidt · 12-29-2004, 05:59 AM

evensen,

publishing files with apache means that

they have to be owned by the default apache user (on my boxes, www-data) - chown can do that
easiest is to put the data into the apache publishing directory tree, on my boxes it starts with /var/www/
you can also symlink (ln -s) the files into /var/www

Hope this helps,

Peter

phil.d.g · 12-29-2004, 06:18 AM

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Originally posted by evensen
but i still get 403 Forbidden when trying to access one of the sub folders using my web browser. The files i want to make accessable is within my public_html folder. Any other sugestions ?

The parent folders to the data also need to be readable by apache, all folders need to have execute permissions for apache and all files need read permission, so for folders you would do a chmod 755 /folder and all files you would do a chmod 644 /folder/file

beanerjo · 12-29-2004, 06:37 AM

As phil.d.g pointed out, the directories (folders) need execute permission too: In the top directory

find . -type d | while read f; do chmod 755 $f; done

(I don't know how to use '-exec' with 'find'.) Check other directories too just for fun. You will find that any directory that has no execute premission can't be read.