Hi On Sat, February 25, 2006 5:09 am, Arnel Pastrana said: >> >> The files in your /var/www should strictly speaking only be >> accessible to >> your webserver ; for apache usually www-data or apache or httpd >> accounts >> should have rwx permissions. >> Grep for these in /etc/passwd if unsure which one to use. >> > Yes it uses www-data
That's the account apache uses by default on debian, if installed from the package ;) >> You could then set the permissions to xy0 for /var/www with chmod. >> Test, if your site doesn't funtion adequately anymore, set the >> permissions >> for "other" to "r"(4) only. >> > Hi thanks for the help when I did this >> So for instance: chmod -R 770 www-data:www-data (www-data is the >> account >> under which the apache daemon runs on Debian). > It shows in my site forbidden. > > May I know what's the problem? > > Thanks again. > Probably the webserver needs the file(s) to be world-readable. Try a chmod 774 on your website for instance. Does that work Arnel? Cheers Roger -- Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it. - Irving Berlin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
