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Cal Dershowitz, 2013-02-19 10:27:

> On 02/14/2013 08:15 AM, Kim André Akerĝ wrote:
> 
>> sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www
> 
> Thx, Kim, this really helped me out of the mire, but I'm not quite
> squared-away yet.
>>
>> This will change the owner (chown) of the /var/www folder to the
>> "www-data" user (and the "www-data" group), and all files and folders
>> within it (-R = recursively). The sudo command is used to run the chown
>> command with elevated administrator privileges (ie. as the root user).
>> You may have to provide a password to run that command, though. If
>> you're already running the command as the root user, you don't need to
>> run it through "sudo".
>>
>> The other privileges on the files inside /var/www (read/write/execute)
>> can stay as they are (no need to use the "chmod" command).
>>
> 
> ok.  to run as a php script, a file only need to have read permission,
> though, right?

Yes - since you do not run a PHP script directly but use the PHP
interpeter to do this for you, either with a PHP module in your
Webserver or an external handler.


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