Absoloute beginner has problems modifying files in Ubuntu(d) LAMP

[Desai]

Greetings good people,

 

As the subject say, I can't make any changes inside my "default-site" directory.

 

I'm a total noob to Apache and not very good with the Linux terminal.

 

Thanks all

 

D

[DarkWater]

What's the default-site directory's full path?

[trq]

Theres a few things I do to make administering websites on Debian easier, rather then needing to sudo all the time.

 

The first is to create a new group www, join that group, then give that group permissions to write to the /var/www directory.

 

sudo addgroup www
sudo gpasswd -a yourusername www

 

You can also make yourself an administer of the www group, this will allow you to add and remove users from the group.

sudo gpasswd -A yourusername

 

From there all you really need do is set the permissions properly on the /var/www directory and its conents.

sudo chmod ugo-wrx /var/www
sudo chmod u+wrx,g+wrxs,o+rx /var/www
find /var/www -type f sudo chmod u+rw,g+rw,o+r {} \;
find /var/www -type d sudo chmod u+rwx,g+rwx,o+rx {} \;

 

You should now be able to freely write / read from within the /var/www directory and any files you create will belong to you and the www group.

 

Theres more you can do including creating a similar policy for the /etc/apache2/sites-* directories. Hopefully this small example will give you the idea.

[Desai]

Theres a few things I do to make administering websites on Debian easier, rather then needing to sudo all the time.

 

The first is to create a new group www, join that group, then give that group permissions to write to the /var/www directory.

 

sudo addgroup www
sudo gpasswd -a yourusername www

 

You can also make yourself an administer of the www group, this will allow you to add and remove users from the group.

sudo gpasswd -A yourusername

 

From there all you really need do is set the permissions properly on the /var/www directory and its conents.

sudo chmod ugo-wrx /var/www
sudo chmod u+wrx,g+wrxs,o+rx /var/www
find /var/www -type f sudo chmod u+rw,g+rw,o+r {} \;
find /var/www -type d sudo chmod u+rwx,g+rwx,o+rx {} \;

 

You should now be able to freely write / read from within the /var/www directory and any files you create will belong to you and the www group.

 

Theres more you can do including creating a similar policy for the /etc/apache2/sites-* directories. Hopefully this small example will give you the idea.

 

Geesh, I always have silly problems like this when using Linux.

 

Gonna give it a try now, but I really don't like using the terminal all the time

 

Q: In "sudo gpasswd -a yourusername www", should "gpasswd" be replaced by my password?

 

Thanks

 

D

[Desai]

What's the default-site directory's full path?

 

I think it's "/var/www/"

 

Maybe an easier solution to all this is to change the path to my site to a directory I already have full rights to? Or would that mean other problems later when trying to run a script?

 

Thanks for all your help

 

D

[Desai]

What's the default-site directory's full path?

 

sorry it's /usr/share/apache2/default-site/

 

D

[trq]

Q: In "sudo gpasswd -a yourusername www", should "gpasswd" be replaced by my password?

 

No, gpasswd is a command, used to add users to groups.

 

That line will add you to the www group.

 

Also, I just realised. These lines....

 

find /var/www -type f sudo chmod u+rw,g+rw,o+r {} \;
find /var/www -type d sudo chmod u+rwx,g+rwx,o+rx {} \;

 

Should be....

 

find /var/www -type f -exec sudo chmod u+rw,g+rw,o+r {} \;
find /var/www -type d -exec sudo chmod u+rwx,g+rwx,o+rx {} \;
find /var/www -type f -exec sudo chown :www {} \;
find /var/www -type d -exec sudo chown :www {} \;