On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 14:25 -0500, Tim Holmes wrote: > Hi Folks: > > I know that this is a kinda basic question, but I don't want to totally > mess up my webserver. I have moved some directories to our new > webserver, and because of the move, they have all been flagged as owned > by and in the root group. I want to change this to tholmes owner, and > apache group. > > I am familiar with the chown and chgrp commands, my question pertains to > using the recursive flag and the proper syntax for it. For example the > directory /var/www/html/mcaschool/ contains our schools website -- every > file within that website should have a owner of tholmes and group of > apache. > > As I understand it, I would issue the following commands from the > /var/www/html/mcaschool/ directory: > chown tholmes /var/www/html/mcaschool/* -R > chgrp apache /var/www/html/mcaschool/* -R > > Is this correct, or what is the correct command sequence. I think I > have found the right commands, but I don't dare try it till I am sure as > I cannot afford to screw up the entire site. # chown -R tholmes:apache /var/www/html/mcaschool should do the lot all in one go; this will set ownership of the directory /var/www/html/mcaschool itself too. If that's not what you want, use /var/www/html/mcaschool/* as in your original thoughts, which will do all the files and directories inside /var/www/html/mcaschool (excluding any starting with "." in directory /var/www/html/mcaschool), but not the directory /var/www/html/mcaschool itself. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
