On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 21:14 -0400, David L wrote: > I have been using windows for some time as a server and was told by > many that Linux is better. However I have tried and tried to be able > to navigate to the /var/www/html directory using ftp and cannot seem > to do that simple little thing. Any way I can ftp to my home > directorys fine. I would like to use fedora for a web/mail/ftp server > but this is driving me nuts. Everything else is working fine. Help > please! David > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list An easy way to set that up would be to use one of the options to mount that allows you to remount a directory. 1. create a directory in your home directory named whatever you choose (I use html). 2. issue the command "mount -o bind /var/www/html /home/<username>/html You now should be able to see all the contents of the /var/www/html directory at /home/user/html The next thing you need is for the user to be able to write to the /var/www/html directory. To accomplish that I make the applicable users members of the apache group, set their umask accordingly (the files created/modified need to be group writable so I use 002 for the umask.), and last set the /var/www/html directory and contents as group writeable "chmod -R g+w /var/www/html". While there are other ways to achieve the same thing this works for me and does not change security in any way except to make the /var/www/html directory to be group writable by the apache group. Since the server is already able to write to that directory tree as the owner (apache) it seems to me to not make a big difference. If you are running selinux it likely has other ramifications that are not addressed above.
