Re: Re: Minimalist permissions

On Wednesday 16 February 2005 23:30, Ugo Bellavance wrote: > If the needed permissions for standard PHP files and directories > are 'r' on files and 'r-x' on directories, how can I set my umask so > that files and directories are always created as such? I looked up > 'man umask' and it seems to treat files and directories the same way. > Maybe that is impossible, but I logged in via FTP to a server of a web > hosting company, and it implements just this: creates directories as > rwxr-xr-x and files as rw-r--r--. chmod() after creating any directory or file. > Another thing... how should I configure ownership on the files? > root as owner, apache as group and no permissions for others? Depends very much on your particular setup. If you're on a dedicated server with all the virtual hosts owned by the "same person" then it doesn't really matter -- just have apache be the owner and the group. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ New Year Resolution: Ignore top posted posts