Apache webserver folder permissions

visser · Post by **visser** » 04 May 2008, 09:28

This is going to sound very noobish. lol.
u got my apache server up and running on my newly installed ubuntu server

and i was copying some stuff i had been working on from my usb to my root folder.

i go to access it and it says forbidden. so when i create the folder rather than copy it. it allows me to see the folder but every time i view the stuff in it it wont allow me to see it. once again forbidden.

what do you guys do with your apace server?

G-Brain · Post by **G-Brain** » 04 May 2008, 10:03

chmod

Post by **bad_brain** » 04 May 2008, 13:15

yeah, for a quick solution:

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chmod -R 777 <foldername>

DON'T do this when your server is available to the public on the net, only for LAN-usage, because you give read/write/execute permissions to anyone that way.
chmod is an essential command in *nix systems, so make sure you understand how it works, start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chmod

visser · Post by **visser** » 07 May 2008, 06:50

yea i was reading in some other places about this is well. took me a while tho. thanks guys.

and cuz im curious like a cat (tahts why they call me whiskers) why is it bad to chmod a folder while its on the web (wow noob much lol) and what could happen to my site/what could be done?

Post by **bad_brain** » 09 May 2008, 04:35

well, 777 means everybody has the right to read/write/execute anything...what dangers are caused by this depends of course on the source files. if there is just a simple html file it will not cause security risks, but if there are install scripts for example or passwords in a flatfile it would be very dangerous...