8 Nov
2008
8 Nov
'08
11:59 a.m.
Well, in the same way that .\ is the current directory in Windows, ./ is
the current directory in Linux. So "chown www-data:www-data -R ./*" is
saying "change the owner to www-date, change the group to www-data, do
this recursively (-R) - i.e. go into subfolders, for all files (and
folders) in the current folder (./*)
Paul
ludo1960(a)lycos.co.uk wrote:
Solved!!
I bottled it when it came to chowning and chmodding all my site
content, mainly bcos I couldn't find out what the ./* meant, and my
history of server abuse! I delved deeper into the Drupal settings and
found a line in one of the configuration files for issueing cookies
from the server, altered that then ran the update..error 503 gone!
Cheers all....
Cliff...
------------------------------------------------------------------------
*From::* Paul Lewis <bitfolk(a)pjlewis.org>
*To:* ludo1960(a)lycos.co.uk
*Subject:* Re: [bitfolk] Still got 503 error
*Date:* Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:52:52 +0000
Well, I use CentOS, so the exact steps are different, but when I copy
files into the webserver root directory using e.g. the root user, I
then have to do:
cd /var/www/html
chown apache:apache -R ./*
chmod -R 644 ./*
It hasn't broken my system yet :)
In general, the webserver root directory is pretty meaningless to the
Linux system overall. I suspect you broke SSH before when changing
file permissions because SSH is very sensitive regarding permissions,
as if certain files are too public, it can undermine the security of
the system. In my experience, you can change the ownership and
permissions of most files and directories in Linux without problem,
but there are some exceptions, some as /
I would be pretty confident that changing the ownership and
permissions to /var/www won't melt your server *or* give Andy a
nervous breakdown :)
Paul
ludo1960(a)lycos.co.uk wrote:
Many thanks for your help,
So I am on the right track then?
When you say :
"something like:
cd /var/www
chown www-data:www-data -R ./*
chmod 644 -R ./*"
Is this guaranteed to melt my server and give Andy at Bitfolk a
nervous breakdown?
Cheers,
Cliff....
------------------------------------------------------------------------
*From::* Paul Lewis <bitfolk(a)pjlewis.org>
*To:* ludo1960(a)lycos.co.uk
*Subject:* Re: [bitfolk] Still got 503 error
*Date:* Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:42:32 +0000
In general you would want the apache user to own the web server
folders. In your case, you want to do something like:
cd /var/www
chown www-data:www-data -R ./*
chmod 644 -R ./*
This will change the ownership of all files under /var/www to
User:www-data and Group:www-data, and set the permissions to
rw-r--r-- (you should avoid execute (x) permissions in webserver
folders where possibly).
Hope that helps,
Paul
ludo1960(a)lycos.co.uk wrote:
Hello Bitfolkers,
Back to my 503 error, I wrote to the domain module creator
http://drupal.org/node/330563 and the only thing I can come up with
(after checking my Drupal permissions is the Ownership of my Server
root. At the moment
it is User:root Group:root that doesn't sound right to me. I also
have the user www-data in Group www-data (from apache I presume)
that has the home directory of /var/www (server root) Could
confusion over the Ownership of the /var/www directory be causing me
poblems? The last time I tried altering Users and Ownerships I fried
my server, thought best I should ask before I start mucking about again!
These are my suspicions, it will be interesting to see if I am
correct or barking up the wrong tree..again!!
Cheers,
Cliff..
------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
users mailing list
users(a)lists.bitfolk.com
http://lists.bitfolk.com/mailman/listinfo/users