Fedora 16 permissions /var/www folder

[bernhard]

hi everyone. Iḿ trying to get my Apache server running. The server itself works now but I can add or edit files in the /var/www folder. I do not have the correct permissions. How can I accomplish this?

yours,
bernhard

[eaglelinux]

hi,

use terminal and root premissions to add or edit files in the /var/www folder.

Bye !

[bernhard]

Is there a way to give my account more general permissions? In Windows you have user accounts with very few permissions and administrator type accounts. Is this possible in Linux too? Ofcource I don want my account to have root permissions.

[eaglelinux]

Yes of course, you can add your user to sudoers to have special premissions. And if you want to know how to do that, you can use this link: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=261679

I think that's helpful !

Bye !

[Fenrin]

you could do the following:

• add you user to the group apache in the file /etc/group (you can do it via editing this file or use the graphical tool "User and groups")
• set the group owner of /var/www/html like this "chgrp apache -R /var/www/html
• give this group write permission with "chmod g+rw -R /var/www/html" (execute permission would be x, if you need that too)
• for some application, you will have to change SELinux settings

to see some interesting SELinux options you can use this commands:

getsebool -a | grep user
getsebool -a | grep http

you can enable such a option like this:

setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect on

maybe intersting options: httpd_read_user_content, httpd_can_network_connect, httpd_can_network_connect_db, allow_user_mysql_connect or allow_user_postgresql_connect

instead of /var/www/html you can also use ~/public_html (~ is a abbreviated form of your user home directory).
to do this:
• setsebool -P httpd_enable_homedirs 1
• edit the file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: UserDir enabled, uncomment UserDir public_html

to allow applications (for example a php forum) write access to certain directories, for example in case of fluxbb:
• chcon -R -h -t httpd_sys_content_t /home/user/public_html
• chcon -R -h -t httpd_sys_script_rw_t /home/user/public_html/fluxbb/cache
• chcon -R -h -t httpd_sys_script_rw_t /home/user/public_html/fluxbb/img/avatars