Unable to browse /var/www/directory

[Chris G]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:25:30PM -0400, Amrit Pal Pathak wrote:
>    On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Chris G <[1]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?
> 
No, you need to check that the user www-data can access the file.

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Chris Green