On 6/20/06, Knute Johnson <knute@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm setting up my HTTP server and I'm not sure who should own my html files. These are not user files but the files I keep in my document root, /var/www/html. Currently they are owned by root:root. What about cgi script files in /var/www/cgi-bin? I wouldn't think you would want them owned by root? Thanks, -- Knute Johnson Molon Labe...
You don't want any of those files owned by root. Ideally, they should be owned by the user who will be editing them. Otherwise, you can let them be owned by apache (or whatever your httpd is running as) -- To be updated...
