Apache Group and User names

[Wade Smart]

01272006 1107 GMT-6

Ok. I changed the permission to www-data as user and group for the file 
Im working with. I then ran the script. I can write to the file but I 
cannot read from it. There are no errors that show though.

Wade

Stephen R Laniel wrote:

>On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:23:44AM -0600, Wade Smart wrote:
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>>Im doing a tutorial on writing and reading files created through php and im
>>having a bit of a problem. I understand that that file needs to already be
>>created so you can set permissions on it but, my book says that php has no user
>>or group that it belongs to and so you set the file owner and group it belongs
>>to, to apache. I do not see that in the lists. Do I have to add this? Surely
>>not. Apache is running fine at the moment so it must be under something not
>>instantly recognizable.
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>I'm not sure that I understand your question. If the PHP
>script is running within Apache, it will run as the Apache
>user. Normally the apache user is 'www-data' or somesuch,
>though it's configured in /etc/apache/httpd.conf -- e.g.,
>
>User www-data
>Group www-data
>
>When you run a PHP script under Apache, Apache invokes a
>subprocess to run as that user and that group, and that
>subprocess runs the PHP script.
>
>Another alternative is for the scripts to run suid, which
>means that they run as the user who owns them.
>
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