directory configuration problem

Duncan Anderson duncangareth at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Feb 14 18:32:40 UTC 2006


On Tuesday, 14 February 2006 18:52, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> Yes, it's been asked a million times, still I couldn't find it in the
> docs or with google.
>
> I've installed apache, and need to make /var/www writeable by myself. I
> made a new group called 'server' and made myself a member of the group.
> Then as root I changed the group of /var/www from 'root' to 'server'. I
> thought I'd then be able to drop all my files in (which, of course I
> already have permission to write to) and go for it. Nope.
>
> So, how should I have done this?
>
> Duncan

Have you given the group execute permission on the directory? That may help.

regards
(Other) Duncan

		
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