m.roth at 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.