Permissions on /var/www

[Alexander Kraev]

Hi,

It depends on web-server architecture and how many sites you are going 
to run inside /var/www.

root:root is good for /var/www if you are running many sites in 
/var/www. Let's say:

/var/www/example.org
/var/www/example.net
/var/www/sub.example.org

Each of these directory has to be owned as www-data:www-data if you use 
only www-data user to manage all virtual hosts and unix_user:www-data in 
case of multi-user virtual host based web server.

It's a quick tip, all depends on your needs and web server's architecture.

Regards,
Sasha

Armindo Silva wrote:
> Shouldn't be owned by www-data so apache can write there?
> 
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:06 PM, James Dinkel <jdinkel at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jdinkel at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     755 owned by root.root
> 
> 
>     On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Michael S. Mason <midnitemac at me.com
>     <mailto:midnitemac at me.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Hello Community Team:
> 
>         What is the default permissions for /var/www (?)
> 
>         Should this be set to any of the following:
> 
>         775= user can exec, read and write, group can exec read and
>         write, and
>         all other users can read and execute.
>         755= same as above, but group can only read and exec.
> 
>         777= all users on your machine can do anything in files/dirs set
>         with
>         this acl. Remember, even if you are the only physical user on the
>         machine, all processes (apache, ftpd, postfix, etc) are users on
>         your
>         machine and will be able to do bad stuff if 1) the code is buggy and
>         happens to try to delete everything, or 2) if the process gets owned
>         by evil hacker eddie.
> 
>         Thanks!
>         Michael
> 
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