Topic: From Web to LAMP Linux Localhost - permissions

[hugeness]

Hello

Noob with Apache(2) have moved a site for testing off the web, to the Apache www folder for testing.

Came across issues as soon as I did this with permissions. Had to mv as root to get the folder in there, then trying to open the site from localhost, getting

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /shop/index.php on this server.

The folder is set to owner:me (my user)
group (me again)
access (none)
others access (none)

I see the obvious seems to be access 'none' but it was working online? so confused by this. Concerned that as this is a zencart ecommerce site, messing with permissions could mess it up when I put it back online?

I have one file in there, the test php file, which works fine, it has permissions owner:root
group:root
access:read only
others access read only
and that page works fine.

The site is a zencart site, so worried about messing with permissions as I am going to need to put this back up on the web for production.

> lastly, why is it that windows seems to cope with shifting files around like this without these permissions issues?

Thanks for any input!

[James Blond]

it depends on which user you run your apache on linux.
You can set that in the httpd.conf file ( sometimes apache2.conf ( different from distro to distro)).

Why are permissions handled different on Linux than on Windows? There is different approuch how to handle permissions. Windows knows a multiple owner ship of a file while linux knows only one owner.

if you run on linux and the apache user and group is www-data or daemon directory permissions should be 0755 and file permissions 0644.