Re: [SMARTY-DEV] setting up directories

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 09:27:50AM -0700, Dennis Gearon wrote: > So, > do I need to have the host make a group with just me and the > webserver in it? no, you just need a directory whose uid is the webservers uid and whoise gid is your ftp-accounts gid. you don't need to create groups or modify groups-memberships. there is no problem that the webserver-user is not in the ftp-group. > messju mohr wrote: > > >On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:40:04AM -0700, Dennis Gearon wrote: > > > >>On shared hosting (hosing?), the webserver will own the files that Smarty > >>creates. What exactly is the way to set up permissions so that I have > >>'rw' permissions on them as well? > > > > > > > >[in the shell, maybe ask you friendly webspace-provider:] > >mkdir templates_c > >chown [webserver_user].[ftp_user's_group] > >chmod 770 templates_c > >chmod g+s templates_c > > > >[and in php:] > >umask(0007); > >$smarty->_file_perms = 0660; > >$smarty->_dir_perms = 0770; > > > > > >this makes the files created owned by the webserver-users (so he has > >full permissions), but due to the group-sticky-bit of the directory > >the files' group is your ftp-user's group. so the ftp-user has write > >permissions via the group-writable flag. > > > >HTH > >messju > >