How make /var/www/html/mkj/wiki/images) writable by the webserver?

[mkj4]

chown apache /var/www/html/mkj/wiki/images

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edit: wrong title

[pdb]

Do you have SELINUX enabled? It could be an issue with the directory's selinux context.

[Zotter]

chown root:apache /var/www/html/mkj/wiki/images

chmod g+w /var/www/html/mkj/wiki/images

[pdb]

Originally Posted by Zotter

chown root:apache /var/www/html/mkj/wiki/images

chmod g+w /var/www/html/mkj/wiki/images

Can you explain why this would be different from changing the owner to apache as mkj4 tried?

[Zotter]

It's just the way I do it, that's worked for me.

Having 3 Wikimedia installs running - figured it'd workf or you too.

Oh, yea - gotta have at least g+x on the dirctory as well or apache can't change into that directory to write anything. Ooops

[pdb]

It seems to me like it should work just as well to set the owner to apache and have the owner with rwx permissions as it would work to set the group to apache and give the group rwx permissions.... On my system they are equivalent as far as getting write access for the web server.

I would first double check that the directory has rwx permissions for the owner and that apache was correctly set as the owner. (ls -l /var/www/html/wiki) If that looks right, then I would suspect selinux if it is enabled.

[hesam]

This is always a security risk.
Ideally, you should create a group for all "web" users, e.g. users that need write access to /var/www. This would include you, root and apache.

sudo addgroup www-users

Then, you would add yourself and apache to this group.

sudo adduser <your-username> www-users
sudo adduser apache www-users

Finally, let's modify /var/www so that the new group can fully access it:

sudo chgrp www-users /var/www
sudo chmod –R 775 /var/www
sudo chmod g+s /var/www