chmod in linux

[Fluf]

The thing is I have several users in my slackware box and i'm running websiste too in this box.

But i can't find a right chmod for protecting some folders and files.All i want to do is this.

protect folder data/ from normal users, only root can enter in there, but i want that everybody is able to get in this folder via browser, not to view files, but to see the front page..

 

 

[corbin]

Then the Apache user will need access.

[Fluf]

Well i have this folder access to user nobody which is apache user with command

chown -R nobody data/

still it says forbidden when i try to access with browser and chmod is 750

[rocoso]

Restrict users to there home directorys.

[Fluf]

But there are other solutions too..i would like to know :/

[corbin]

Just to make sure it's a file permissions error and not an Apache configuration error, temporarily change the access to 777.  If it works, it's a permission error.  If not, it's Apache config.

[Fluf]

It's not apache fault, i know how chmod works and stuff, but this thing what i want just don't work.

1 for execute, 4 - read, 2-write and i what i want is something like this.

750, normal user has no access to this folder, but with browser you can get access to this folder.

[steviewdr]

suPHP will execute php files as the user.

 

In your case, what is apache running as? Is it "nobody"?

You also said "chown -R nobody data/"

 

Well where is that data folder stored? All parent folders must be executable by the world. I.E.

 

/home/user/data

chown -R nobody data/

chmod 700 data

 

You also have to do this:

chmod 711 /home/user

 

-steve

[Ghulam Yaseen]

You can use this

 

cd /home/user/data

chown -R nobody data/

chmod 644 data

-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody user 0 Nov  1 23:15 data/

 

Mostly the site use this chmod combination

The thing is I have several users in my slackware box and i'm running websiste too in this box.

But i can't find a right chmod for protecting some folders and files.All i want to do is this.

protect folder data/ from normal users, only root can enter in there, but i want that everybody is able to get in this folder via browser, not to view files, but to see the front page..