There are several ways to solve this: 1) Add additional alias or VirtualHost statements to your /etc/httpd/conf file or conf.d directory. This would allow you to graft a branch of web pages into your web server tree. This is how Redhat is configuring their stuff in 8.0. 2) Add a link in your /var/www/html directory to someplace you do have write access to. 3) Use the public_html directory in your home directory. This equates to the ~username extension of your URL. (ie www.foobar.com/~joeuser goes to /home/joeuser/public_html for web pages). This needs to be enabled in your httpd config. Remember that any html files need to be readable by the httpd user (apache ot httpd). If all else fails, make them publically readable. I've not gone into detail of any of these, so if you need better instructions drop a note. > Thanks for your reply. I'm not quite clear with what I need to do, > though. > > First of all, if I do this, won't I need to keep doing this everytime I > add a file to this directory structure? It seems like there would be an > easier way. If this is, indeed, the easiest way, could you outline > again who owns what. > > Secondly, I don't seem to have an adduser command. > > thanks > justin > > > Andy Zbikowski (Zibby) wrote: >> ls -l /var/www | grep html >> >> Usually it has owner and group permissions. chmod 775 /var/www/html && >> adduser yourusername groupname >> >> where groupname is the name of the group that owns the directory. Once >> you log off/log on to refresh the group permissions, you should be >> good to go for the most part. Because we didn't do the chmod >> recursivly, exiting files and subfolders won't have the correct >> permissions. >> >> You'll want to use mode 664 on files and 775 on directories. You'll >> also need to make sure any files you move to this directory are owned >> by the group, not you. You can do this with the chgrp command. >> >> Probally the safest way to go about things so you don't have to muck >> with the default permissions set on the webserver and such. >> >> Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://www.ringworld.org >> "The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making >> a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims >> to be trying to take over the world." >> -- >> Kernel Panic: I have no root and I want to scream. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, >> Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list