On Saturday 29 September 2007 15:48, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: > Sat, 29 Sep 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > On Friday 28 September 2007 22:44, Sloan wrote: > > > primm wrote: > > > > I created a user ftpadmin and a group ftpadmin. I made ftpadmin's > > > > home folder /srv/www/htdocs > > > > > > > > everything under /htdocs is owned by ftpadmin:ftpadmin > > > > > > > > I can now ftp remotely to the /htdocs folder. No problem > > > > > > > > Having made these changes I can no longer see any web pages. > > > > > > > > What do I need to do to be able to both ftp and see webpages? Who has > > > > to own what? > > > > > > chgrp -R www /srv/www/htdocs > > > chmod -R g+rx /srv/www/htdocs > > > > > > Joe > > > > OK. I can now both use ftp and see web pages. Brilliant. Saved me loads > > time. > > > > Just one more question. /srv/www/htdocs is now (user:group) ftpadmin:www > > > > Is that correct? Or doesn't it matter. > > It is correct. > One observation: for a Linux user and website admin you seem to know > very little about the Unix permission schemes. > Do yourself (and possible users of your site) a favor, and make > yourself familiar with these (and other) basics. Disaster always > strikes at the least convenient times, i.e., when no-one can help > you but yourself.. > > Theo
Thanks. It's good advice. I must admit to using out of the box applications and expecting them to just work. Usually they do. I suppose if I bought the windows server I'd get 24/7 support. Maybe that's what I should be looking at in my situation. I have however learned a lot from this experience, especially from the (free) advice given here. So I'm going to continue with my Linux setup until I understand enough not to have to trouble the list. I wish to thank everyone for their contributions in helping me solve this problem and I hope that I have not wasted your time on something trivial. Thanks again. Lynn. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
