On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, lists-centos wrote:
for apache to be able to serve the files under the document root it needs (and should only have) read access to the files (and read/execute for the directories). the directories/files under the document root should **not** be owned (or writeable) by the user/group that the web server is running as. if they are, you have a security hole should someone break through the webserver (or more likely poorly written scripts).
so, a good approach is to have the directories/files under owner/group other than apache (assuming your web server is running as the apache user), with read-only access given to "world".
assume that i have a user and group named "weber". i'll use "weber" to upload (via ftp) directories/files to /var/www/html/
what should /var/www/html/ look like?
also, i have some php include files that i don't want anyone access except apache b/c they contain user/pw to mysql. where should i place them?
i usually place them in /var/www/html/includes/
someone suggested i place them in /var/www/include/, but my question is what user/group /var/www/include/ belong to?
thanks t. hiep
- Rick
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Date: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 12:18:56 PM -0800 From: Hiep Nguyen hiep@ee.ucr.edu To: centos@centos.org Cc: Subject: [CentOS] /var/www/html group & owner
hi again,
[root@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
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Hiep Nguyen