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Old 05-01-2008
Setting permissions

I've been told I need to set the permissions for everything in the htdocs folder to 777, but how do I go about doing this?
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Old 05-01-2008
'man chmod'
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Old 05-01-2008
sorry, I don't understand that - what does that mean and where do I put that?
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Old 05-01-2008
777 = everybody can execute and alter everything. That is for sure not what you want. However, it would go as follows (escaping like bash):
Code:
find /whereever/my/htdocs/are/ -exec chmod 777 {} \;

Better do the following (everybody can read, only owner can alter or execute):
Code:
find /whereever/my/htdocs/are/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find /whereever/my/htdocs/are/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

If some cgi needs to write to some location beneath htdocs change ownership of those files/directories to the user used by your webserver to run cgis (normally apache, httpd oder nobody).

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Originally Posted by thehaapyappy
sorry, I don't understand that - what does that mean and where do I put that?
Put that into command line - it will display help about chmod command. Use "man find" to find out what above does in detail.
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Old 05-01-2008
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Originally Posted by vgersh99
'man chmod'
Quote:
Originally Posted by thehaapyappy
sorry, I don't understand that - what does that mean and where do I put that?
man is a build in technical manual. Simply enter man [command] to get details about any unix command. Of course, you need to know WHICH command.

chmod is the command to change permissions.

One thing about man: read the whole thing, particularly the last few lines. There you're see references to similar commands that may be helpful.
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Old 05-01-2008
Okay thanks, I've got the man chmod and am now about to read it, but how do I find out where the file to change the htdocs permissions is?
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Old 05-01-2008
htdocs is no single file but a folder. Ask the one who installed your system, he'll tell you. Maybe Have a look for /srv/www/htdocs , /var/www , /var/lib/apache/htdocs .

If you've installed the system yourself start reading the documentation coming with it - it will help you to actually understand what to do.
 
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