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What’s the best way of handling permissions for apache2’s user www-data in /var/www?

I am setting up my first server from scratch and as i am completely novice at this i am not sure if i am doing this right.

I have my web exposed folder at /var/www and asi need to it accessible to everyone and writable by group and owner i set it s permission to 774.

Is this how things are supposed to be set up or am i doing something terribly wrong?

THanks for any tips,

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The general rule is to give the least possible permissions/privileges for users. Folders permissions should be generally either 755 (does not provide w for group) or 775 (provide w for group).

In your case, 774 might not be enough for web server process to access the folder given that it is not the owner and is not a member in its group.

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Got it, thank you for clarifying that. – silkAdmin Mar 18 '12 at 16:39

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