[EMAIL PROTECTED] (allan) wrote:
>my guess is that youre right - access denied according to the error_log
>but to be honest ive lost track of all the different users on osX
>
>there are normal system-login users like me: username=aju
>there are an apache user: username=???
>there are an mysql user: username=mysql or undef im not sure
Right, you can have as many different users as your heart desires. It's
usually a good strategy to take distinct major tasks of the system and
give them each a user, so that each task is ensured against messing with
any of the other users' files or processes.
>then there is this super user. everytime i install something i end up
>needing to be super user so i have a sudo in front of almost any command
You might try 'sudo su' for a longer period of omnipotence.
>how can i see - for instance - the username for the apache server? (ive
>look in httpd, it says nobody!)
>and what if there are no username for an application like apache or
>mysql, i mean if username= super user?
The easiest way is to start up the server and use 'top' (or 'ps auxw' or
whatever) to see what user the child processes are running as.
But remember, the key to your specific problem is to find the error
message in Apache's error logs.
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