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On Wed, February 6, 2008 19:54, Simon Waters wrote:
> Paul Sutton wrote:
>>
>> i am trying to set the permissions correctly. however there is no
>> nobody or apache group or user, so setting chown to either fails.
>
>
>> how do I create the user, nobody or group nobody, so i can add the
>> moodledirectory to that group, or whatever I need to do to fix it
>
> I'm assuming it need to be owned by the web server user, so that the web
> server process can update the files.
>
> In Debian this is user "www-data", group "www-data" unless you fiddled.
>
> In other distros try;
>
> ps -ef | grep apache
>
> or
>
> ps -ef | grep httpd
>
> I get this from the first command on my Debian Sid box, showing that
> Apache starts as root, and then launches its child tasks as user
> "www-data". So for me "www-data" is likely the correct user.
>
> root 2924 1 0 Jan25 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
> www-data 29623 2924 0 Feb03 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
> www-data 29625 2924 0 Feb03 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
> www-data 29626 2924 0 Feb03 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
>
Yes it's a Debian box, I was about to suggest replacing the "apache" user
and group with www-data when I saw this email..
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