Robert C Wittig wrote:
> Usually, default installations of Apache are initially 'owned' by a
> machine identity... like 'daemon' or 'www' or something, so you have to
> check to see who owns the htdocs directory and files.
>
> If the files are owned by user 'www' who belongs to group 'www', then
> you ca su to root, and add yourself to the 'www' group, using the
> 'chown' command.
>
> Once you are a member of the group that owns the files you are trying to
> modify or replace/overwrite, and the directory you are trying to place
> files into, you should have sufficient rights to do what you want.
>
>
Also, if the file permissions only permit the file owner ('www' in this
example) to delete and modify the file, as opposed to permitting all
group members to perform these actions, that will have to be correct
with 'chmod'.
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