m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
Todd wrote:
With /var/www/html owned by root:root and me loggin in as 'jason' I cannot accomplish this. I don't allow root logins over ssh...
<snip> >> Would I change /var/www/html/<my domain> owner to myid:mygroup? I am not >> sure the famifications of this and how Apache would behave, etc. > > The whole of /var/www can belong to myid:mygroup as long as the apache <snip> Not a great idea. Rather, I'd recommend that it be the apache user (apache or httpd, whichever you have it as, and have the directory of a group that you belong to (remember, you can have multiple secondary groups, like, say, group httpd), and make it group writeable.
so you prefer giving the apache user write access to /var/www ? Is this really a good thing...? I agree with the group advice though, if you have several users modifying the website content of course.