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On 4/12/2011 6:56 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 04/11/2011 04:50 PM, Todd Cary wrote:
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<pre wrap="">For a long period of time, my Apache root directory has been
/home/httpd. For security reasons, this is not so good as
SELinux has informed me. Now all of the files have been copied
to /var/www/etc with owner and group "root". The privileges are
754 (rwxr-xr--), however apache does not have access to them.
Should the owner be apache? Group?
Todd
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You will need give the user who is running the httpd daemon (apache by
default) the required access to the files.
If you have things that need to be written, you will need to give that
user (again, apache by default) write access to those files/directories.
You control who an httpd instance runs as in the httpd.conf file ...
look for User and Group in your httpd.conf file. This will tell you for
the default install:
egrep '^User|^Group' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
You will need to set user and/or group permissions on your directory as
required based on who is running the httpd daemon.
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Thank you! Yes, httpd.conf does have the correct parameters:<br>
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User apache<br>
Group apache<br>
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Since I am a "Sunday user" of Linux in that once I set it up, it may
be months before I need to do anything other than backup and run yum
update. As a result, my Linux skills are not like someone using
Linux daily (wish I did not have to earn my living in the Windows
world). So, I wanted to make sure that changing the Owner and Group
to "apache" for /var/www/ was correct.<br>
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Todd<br>
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