Homepage editing problem

[Bliss, Aaron]

What I would do would be to chgrp -R group webfilesdir where group is the group that should have write access to those files; check /etc/group to see who is in the group called group and then make sure that files perms are nothing more that 775 recursively on your web content using ls -l (774 would be the best).  See man chgrp, chown, chmod  Also make sure that the user your running your webserver as doesn't own any content and isn't in the group that will own your webcontent.  Also, you might want to make a quick backup using cp -rp before doing anything above.

Aaron

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From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Krassen Deltchev
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 4:06 PM
To: redhat-list at redhat.com
Subject: Homepage editing problem

Hello,

i have a very odd problem:
i am the new net admin of a lab,which has a homepage/webserver on a RHEL
3 server with Apache;
there are three persons(users) ,who should do a homepage editing on the internet site of the lab; i started to work at the lab a month ago and the former admin "disliked"
to explain to me all the details  regarding this problem,i know several things about what happened before i got the job:
-the webserver resided on a debian machine and then it was moved on a blade server with RHEL 3 -afterthat the bladeserver was upgraded...
-now there are two servers- the debian one and the blade server one ,on which the webserver is running...
i have contacted the former admin per e-mail ,but he didn't dare to give me a reasonable explanation at all...so i'm asking here at the forum/mailing-list ,if someone can help me to solve this issue....
what i know till this moment and what  my suposures are:
-as a root i can edit everything -the homepage too, -the three users ,whom i  want to grand the editing option use mainly Dreamweaver 8 with sFTP, -they clame that they cannot edit the index.html nor to delete it.
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-i checked the user rights for the index.html; and the owner of the index.html(which is one of them ?!) has all kind of rights : -rwx,the group has also -rw rights, -i thought that there is something in apache.conf regarding this issue ,but i'm really unsure,what should i look for ,or better to say :how can i specify  a special owner and a group ,whom should be given the rights for editing the page.i don't know even ,if there are some special tricks for ediing the apache.conf,like stopping the process(server) and restarting it after editing apache.conf;so !please! give me detailed advices regarding how to edit such importaint configuration files if i need to!

-example ,let's say:
--the first user has a user id 1002
--the second user has a user id 1003
--the third user has a user id 1004
--the group should be with id 33,this i have found out using gFTP,so how should i change the settings on index.html ,so only these three users can do their job?
-surely i can give all users the rights to edit the page ,but this is not the point of the discussion!
-I need to specify these and only three users ,whom should be granded these editing rights.

Sorry if my explanation is not in the right way of thoughts ,but i'm still a newbee and the team ,which i'm working for is really great ,so i don't want to disappoint them.

Thanks in advance for your replies!

Krassen

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Krassen Deltchev
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Medizinische Fakultät
Institut für Physiologie
Abteilung für Neurophysiologie
MA 4-155
Universitätsstrasse 150
44801 Bochum
e-mail: deltchev at neurop.rub.de
            Krassen.Deltchev at rub.de
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