www-data permissions on /var/www

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 26 November 2012 23:27:42 Ric Moore did opine:

> On 11/26/2012 03:35 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> > On 26 November 2012 00:28, Knute Johnson <ubuntu at knutejohnson.com> 
wrote:
> >> On 11/25/2012 00:37, Ric Moore wrote:
> >>> On 11/25/2012 02:21 AM, katrina warsaw wrote:
> >>>> Hello!:
> >>>> 
> >>>> You must think that human users have their userids upper of 1000.
> >>>> www-data user is really the user who admins the website, is the
> >>>> user and group of your webserver , and  your web's user or your
> >>>> web's visitors are from group "others".
> >>>> I wish this helps you!
> >>> 
> >>> Correct, user AND group must be set to www-data.
> >>> sudo chmod -R www-data:www-data /var/www
> 
> WHOA!! STOP THE PRESSES!! I meant chown, not chmod. Someone just shoot
> me.

Bang!  Dang, I missed, something I rarely do.

> I know, it's the pain meds ...that the ticket. :) Ric

They need 'adjusted' I think.  You've been quiet on the other list, hows 
the foot?
Cheers, Gene
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