On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, lists-centos wrote:
> for apache to be able to serve the files under the document root it
> needs (and should only have) read access to the files (and
> read/execute for the directories). the directories/files under the
> document root should **not** be owned (or writeable) by the
> user/group that the web server is running as. if they are, you have a
> security hole should someone break through the webserver (or more
> likely poorly written scripts).
>
> so, a good approach is to have the directories/files under
> owner/group other than apache (assuming your web server is running as
> the apache user), with read-only access given to "world".
assume that i have a user and group named "weber". i'll use
"weber" to upload
(via ftp) directories/files to /var/www/html/
what should /var/www/html/ look like?
also, i have some php include files that i don't want anyone access except
apache b/c they contain user/pw to mysql. where should i place them?
i usually place them in /var/www/html/includes/
someone suggested i place them in /var/www/include/, but my question is what
user/group /var/www/include/ belong to?
thanks
t. hiep
>
>
> - Rick
>
> ------------ Original Message ------------
>> Date: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 12:18:56 PM -0800
>> From: Hiep Nguyen <hiep at ee.ucr.edu>
>> To: centos at centos.org
>> Cc:
>> Subject: [CentOS] /var/www/html group & owner
>>
>> hi again,
>>
>> [root at dev ~]# ls -all /var/www/
>> total 64
>> drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Mar 3 11:44 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Mar 3 11:44 ..
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 15 20:36 cgi-bin
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 3 11:43 error
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 15 20:36 html
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 3 11:44 icons
>> drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Mar 3 11:44 manual
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 webalizer root 4096 Mar 3 11:44 usage
>>
>> currently, html is belonging to root group/owner and httpd is
>> running under apache user/group.
>>
>> what should i change html to, so that httpd can run safely under
>> apache user/group???
>>
>> or should i change httpd to run under a different user/group???
>>
>> if i keep httpd running on apache user/group, should i change html
>> to apache group/owner???
>>
>> thank you for all your help.
>> t. hiep
>>
>>
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