Re: Apache "permission denied"

[Jake Morrison <jake_morrison@example.com>]

Jc,

I normally create a special user and group just for Apache, called
"apache". This makes it easier to customize the environment
for the account without affecting the nobody account. 

In particular, it makes it easier to set up environment
variables (e.g., for Oracle) so that CGI scripts running under
"apache" can use them. 

Jake

--- Jean-Christian Imbeault <jean_christian@example.com> wrote:
> Here's what little information I have been able to get.
> 
> >Use su to become the user the web server runs as (the User line in
> >httpd.conf).
> 
> User is nobody, Group is top40.
> 
> I have made user nobody part of the group top40.
> 
> [root]# cat /etc/group | grep nobody
> nobody:x:99:
> top40:x:508:nobody
> 
> 
> >Then see if you can list up the files and read them. If you
> >can then it is not a permissions/ownership problem.
> 
> As nobody I cannot enter the directory where the files are. So I
> guess itmust be a file ownership problem.
> 
> >Does it say anything in the error log?
> 
> No, just a 403 message.
> 
> >"allow from all" is the default behaviour, so why do you need to do
> > it explicitly?
> 
> Just making sure ^_^
> 
> Jc
> 

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