Linux/PHP question

[jabr-iwcNaMm7aMIiq3RsQ1AnAw at public.gmane.org (John Abreau)]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:25 PM, David Kramer <david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Myrle Francis wrote, On 11/04/2008 10:14 AM:
>> Hello David
>>
>>  Thanks for your response.. I've provide information of my files structure:
>>
>> Thanks
>> Myrle
>>
>>
>> file structure
>>
>> tbit (my home)
>>  |
>>   > drwxr-xr-x  3 tbit  free  512 Oct 31 13:31 html
>> (permissions as provided by my shell account)
>>     |
>>      >drwxr-xr-x  7 tbit  free  1024 Nov  1 10:56 myzipwear
>> (permissions as provided by me)
>>       |
>>        >drwxr-xr-x  2 tbit  free  512 Nov  1 10:55 Area51
>> (permissions as provided by me)
>>
>>
>> bash-3.2$ ls -l (of Area 51)
>>
>> total 12
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 tbit  free  176 Nov  1 09:54 counter.php
>> -rw-rw-rw-  1 tbit  free    1 Nov  1 09:53 hitcounter.txt
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 tbit  free   34 Nov  1 09:55 webhits.php
>
> So I take it your DocumentRoot is is in your home directory
> (~tbit/html). right?
>
> What user is Apache running as?  If it's running as apache or httpd (or
> anything else but tbit) it might not have sufficient permissions to
> write to a file anywhere in your home directory.


In addition to user permissions, there's thequestion of SELinux settings.
If SELinux is in Enforcing mode, then the files would need to an SELinux
type of httpd_sys_content_t, otherwise SELinux wouldn't allow
apache to touch them at all.




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