Permissions on /var/www
Alexander Kraev
alexander.kraev at gmail.com
Mon Aug 17 17:00:48 UTC 2009
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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