[CentOS] /var/www/html group & owner

[Alex White]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:18:56 -0800 (PST)
Hiep Nguyen <hiep at ee.ucr.edu> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled:

> hi again,
> 
> [root at dev ~]# ls -all /var/www/
> total 64
> drwxr-xr-x  8 root      root 4096 Mar  3 11:44 .
> drwxr-xr-x 21 root      root 4096 Mar  3 11:44 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root      root 4096 Jan 15 20:36 cgi-bin
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root      root 4096 Mar  3 11:43 error
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root      root 4096 Jan 15 20:36 html
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root      root 4096 Mar  3 11:44 icons
> drwxr-xr-x 14 root      root 4096 Mar  3 11:44 manual
> drwxr-xr-x  2 webalizer root 4096 Mar  3 11:44 usage
> 
> currently, html is belonging to root group/owner and httpd is
> running under apache user/group.
> 
> what should i change html to, so that httpd can run safely under
> apache user/group???
> 
> or should i change httpd to run under a different user/group???
> 
> if i keep httpd running on apache user/group, should i change
> html to apache group/owner???
> 
> thank you for all your help.
> t. hiep

You do not need to change the user and group. The default groups
are fine, apache should be able to traverse the directories and
read them; thus, serve them up without a problem. 

So long as apache has permission to read the contents (correct
permissions) you do not have to change the user/group to be
specific to apache.

I would refrain from making anything writable (unless necessar) by
apache anyhow. Just for the sake of security.

Sincerely,

Alex White
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