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Re: web page problem

From	Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: web page problem
Date	2019-06-14 15:10 +0200
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On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 02:58:05PM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> That's my standard setup: the files belong to a "www admin" (can be a
> regular user, can be root) and have the group www-data. So the web
> server hasn't (usually) write access to normal htmls and cgi-bins
> (oh, for the last, execute access for the group is necessary, so 075x.

Changing the group-owner of the files is one possible approach, yes.

However, I prefer to remind myself that if I put something on the web,
the entire world can see it.  So any attempt to restrict who can read
the files on my local system would be entirely pointless, if they can
simply read them on the world wide web instead.

Thus, making the files world-readable is completely rational.  And saves
you the headaches and hassles of managing group permissions and umasks
and so on.  (However, those headaches may return if you are trying to
allow multiple people administrative access to the content.  That's a
separate issue.)

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web page problem Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-13 21:40 +0200
  Re: web page problem Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-06-13 22:10 +0200
    Re: web page problem Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-13 22:50 +0200
      Re: web page problem Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-06-13 23:10 +0200
        Re: web page problem Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-14 00:20 +0200
          Re: web page problem Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-06-14 14:50 +0200
            Re: web page problem <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-06-14 15:00 +0200
              Re: web page problem Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-06-14 15:10 +0200
                Re: web page problem Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-15 03:20 +0200
              Re: web page problem Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-06-14 15:10 +0200
                Re: web page problem Kevin DAGNEAUX <kevin.dagneaux@fiitelcom.fr> - 2019-06-14 16:10 +0200
                Re: web page problem Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-15 03:30 +0200
            Re: web page problem Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-14 17:30 +0200
  Re: web page problem mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-06-15 12:00 +0200

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