Unable to browse /var/www/directory

[Amrit Pal Pathak]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> 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.
> Here user is who?is it amrit ?
>
    if you know how to  check , can you please tell me ?

   Thanks for hellp
   amritpalpathak.blogspot.com
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