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flatcircle
Joined: 27 Jun 2006
Posts: 79
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 Posted: Sat 12 Jul '08 14:56 Post subject: Apache on Windows - NTFS permissions |
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Hello,
Seems like a simple quesion, but cant' figure it out.
Because running Apache on Windows has slighty different permissions on files, I'm a bit lost. (NTFS <=> 755,644)
I have created a separate account for running the Apache service. Is it a good idea to give this Apache-account the (NTFS) 'modify' rights to the folder where all my websites are in?
Some webapplications do need write access to specific files/dirs, some not. Because of this complexity (some files read access / some write access,...), I thought it would be faster to give the whole webfolder modify-rights to the Apache-account. Because of this separate Apache-account (no Administrator-rights) on which the webserver runs, I think this will not cause a security breach.
Any advice what's the best practice on this? (modify-rights, write-rights,...)
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glsmith
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Joined: 16 Oct 2007
Posts: 2268
Location: Sun Diego, USA
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Keep it closed up and open things up as necessary till things work.
Don't forget, Apache writes the pid file to /logs as well as modifies the logs themselves so read/write/modify the /logs for sure. |
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