Unable to browse /var/www/directory

[Amrit Pal Pathak]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:00:27PM -0400, Amrit Pal Pathak wrote:
> >      First things to check to my mind are:-
> >
> >         What is the value of FILE_CONFIG?  It *might* point at a file
> >         somewhere else and not the config.php in the same directory as
> >         constants.inc (or anyway the file one *thinks* it's referring
> to).
> >
> >         Then, what user is running apache (a ps will reveal this) and
> does
> >         that user have permission to access the config.php file?
> >
> >                Well user is sudo and it has rights.I was accessing it
> without
> >    any problem in my previous installed ubuntu but in newly installed i
> >    didn't work.
>
> Er, I think you're a little confused.  There isn't a user 'sudo', that's
> just a command for you to obtain root privileges from the command line.
> What we need to know is what user the apache2 process is running as, you
> need to run the command 'ps -ef | grep apache2' at the command line and
> you will see several apache2 processes and their user, on my system I see:-
>
>    chris$ ps -ef | grep apache2
>


>    it gives me following
>

      root      1137     1  0 12:16 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k
start
www-data  1143  1137  0 12:16 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  1144  1137  0 12:16 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  1145  1137  0 12:16 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  1146  1137  0 12:16 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  1147  1137  0 12:16 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  1765  1137  0 12:19 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
amrit     1807  1790  0 12:22 pts/3    00:00:00 grep --color=auto apache2


Now what i have to check ?
is amrit have the privilages to access that directory? is it?

Thanks
amritpalpathak.blogspot.com
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