Ubuntu and Apache

I know this is not quite on topic but I do not know where else to turn.
I needed to reinstall ubuntu and now I cannot change myself to be the
owner of var www. I had been able to change myself to the owner of it
and create, delete and modify any files I wanted before I had to
reinstall. Now it seems the change is not taking effect. What happens
is I use the sudo chown command and it shows that I am the owner. I have
a script that creates a file when I go to the page and it creates a file
and has www-data as the owner, not me. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Brian

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Re: Ubuntu and Apache

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Brian,

You're not doing anything wrong. Apache runs as www-data in Ubuntu, so any
file created by Apache will belong to that owner:group.

Add yourself to the www-data group and life will become easier.

Cheers - Miles

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Brian Hazelton wrote:

> I know this is not quite on topic but I do not know where else to turn. I
> needed to reinstall ubuntu and now I cannot change myself to be the owner of
> var www. I had been able to change myself to the owner of it and create,
> delete and modify any files I wanted before I had to reinstall. Now it seems
> the change is not taking effect. What happens is I use the sudo chown
> command and it shows that I am the owner. I have a script that creates a
> file when I go to the page and it creates a file and has www-data as the
> owner, not me. What am I doing wrong?
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
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> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)
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