Hi Colin, Thanks for the advice, I have set up user and group 'www'
> Also, should my apache doc root be owned by root:root? > > Definitely not - that means only root can maintain the website - not > normally a good idea even on a 'home' PC. Yep I am finding that out! My plan is to make my ''server'' PC keyboardless and monitorless and to control it from my ''work'' machine but I keep running into permission problems. Am I right in saying that if I issue ... # chown www:www /www # chmod 2755 /www then all files created in /www will be owned by user and group www and that I need to include all users (who need) in the 'www' group. I geuss that I would also need to tell apache to run as www:www (currently default 'nobody'). I realise this is another gapping hole in my knowledge but I a wanting to learn a lot more about linux, sometimes the man pages confuse me though (which is not difficult :-) Best wishes Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
