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jti
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:34 am Post subject: File permissions on htdocs sub-dir |
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I seem to be having problems with file permissions. Apache runs as 'apache', and its htdocs dir is /home/<my_username>/www/htdocs. All works fine, except an upload script which allows users to upload files via a web-form to a sub-directory of the htdocs dir.
The file-uploads dir is set to 775, and apache is a member of my_username group. But I'm getting 'Couldn't open temp file for writing: Permission denied' errors on file upload unless I set the uploads dir to 777. Security is not really an issue as we're on a LAN with password access (for a small number of trusted users) to the application that does the file uploads.
As far as I know, 775 means user & group have read/write/execute permissions on the directory, and apache is a member of the group, so what is causing the problem? |
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SteveG
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Have you restarted apache since you added it to your group? |
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jti
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: Have you restarted apache since you added it to your group?
Err, no :( I'll do so next chance I get and report back. |
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SteveG
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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| That will (well, should) fix it. Changes to group membership don't affect existing processes. |
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jti
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| Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:38 am Post subject: |
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Quote: That will (well, should) fix it
It did! Many thanks. |
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