Lance A. Brown wrote:
Merle Watts wrote:I would say the problem is a bit simpler, but I could be wrong (as Joseph pointed out yesterday :) ). Apache needs to be able to read the files, via standard UNIX file permissions. Because it's apparently running as group Apache, that group needs read access to those files, and if there are directories involved, execute access to be able to descend into them. You can easily remedy this problem after dropping your 800megs of files into place, with the following two commands:
im trying to set up an http server.
i have the server all set up and working the way it should, i can view my index.html
however, i had to manually set the permisions to the file. i had to change the group to apache and set read and execute privilages for that group on the file.
this will turn to a big problem when i place my 800 meg worth of pictures and files into this folder.
is there a way to set it so that every file in this folder, the var/www/html, is set to the appache group with read and execute turned on?
I did not have this problem when I was using mandrake.
Sounds like a problem with the default SELINUX settings. FC3 ships with SELINUX enabled. To disable it, edit /etc/sysconfing/selinux and set the SELINUX variable to disabled and reboot. There are probably less drastic mesasures you can take, but this is what I did.
--[Lance]
chgrp -R apache /var/www/html/
chmod -R g+rx /var/www/html/
These commands will change the group (chgrp) recursively (-R) to apache on /var/www/html/, and then change the file permissions mode (chmod) recursively (-R) adding read and execute permissions for the group (g+rw) on all files in /var/www/html/. As always, you should read the man pages for chgrp and chmod before trusting any commands like this from a mailing list. After all, my license plate reads BOFH. :)
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