--On Sunday, January 30, 2011 8:14 PM -0800 Jason S-M <slackmoehrle.lists at gmail.com> wrote: > Secondarily /var/www/html/<my website> is owned by root:root, can I > change this to something else so my sftp'ing is easier? apache:apache as > owner? I would avoid giving the apache user write access to anything under /var/www/html unless it absolutely needs it. That prevents a rogue break-in through the web server from rewriting your web content and creating a back door into your system.