Whenever I create a file in /var/www/html/, it is at permission 600 (forbidden)

Josh1billion · 03-18-2006, 04:54 PM

I just installed Apache and I'm having a little bit of trouble. I think it's more of a Linux thing than an Apache thing, though.

See, whenever I create a file in my /var/www/html folder, it's at the permission 600 (only the Owner can read it). Which means that if I browse to http://127.0.0.1, it will say Forbidden until I manually chmod the file.

There has to be a way to make this automatic, at least in this folder if nowhere else, so I don't have to keep chmodding each file I create on my server?

dmartins · 03-18-2006, 05:58 PM

I seem to recall that the default mask for a file is the permissions of it's parent directory.. Check the permissions on the parent directories.. If the /var/www/html folder has permissions 600, those permissions will be passed to any new files in that directory.

I think this is the way it works

Josh1billion · 03-18-2006, 06:14 PM

/var/www/html has 777 (I set it to this myself). /var/www has 777 too (I set this too), and /var is 755 (I think it was like this by default).

winsnomore · 03-18-2006, 07:51 PM

check your umask

type umask and see the results.
The output is exclusive or'd with 777 to set the permissions on new files

Josh1billion · 03-18-2006, 10:24 PM

umask says 0002.. what do I do now? I don't understand exactly what you just said.