Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:42:36 +0100 (CET) From: "Peter Boosten" <peter@boosten.org> To: stevefranks@ieee.org Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: permissions for www acting strangely Message-ID: <2580.192.168.13.35.1195494156.squirrel@www.boosten.org> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90711190935m4efdaf6ndecf5224271c24d1@mail.gmail.com> References: <539c60b90711190935m4efdaf6ndecf5224271c24d1@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, November 19, 2007 18:35, Steve Franks wrote: > Few weeks ago, I installed apache22. Just wanted to put up some > family photos. Whenever I tried to connect, got a "apache doesn't have > permisson to acess ~/. on this system or somesuch". The only way to ge= t > around it appeared to be a chmod 777 on my pic folder (no luck with 775= !). > Now I restored some stuff from a backup over my photos, > and now 777 won't work either. Is there something fundamental about > permissions I am totally missing? > Steve, I suppose ~/ is your html_public in your homedir, right? Apache runs as user www (and group www). So this user needs one way or th= e other access to the mentioned directory (read and execute =3D 5). Could it be that access is blocked on a higher level, say your homedir? Peter --=20 http://www.boosten.org
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