On 10/10/05, Boyle Owen <Owen.Boyle@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > So how do I change my permissions so that apache can access the files > > in /var/www and also, so that the user 'work' can read and write to > > those files as well? Thanks all in advance for excusing my ignorance. > > The unix commands you need to bone up on are; chmod, chgrp and chown - use man or a Unix book to find out more. As a quick fix, try; > > chmod 744 /var/html/www > > Rgds, > Owen Boyle Thanks, Owen. In any case I did 'chmod 744 /var/www/html' which is what I think that you meant. That didn't quite work either. The server had no problems when the DocRoot was /home/dotancohen/www/public_html. Why should it have any problems when I switch it back to the default, /var/www/html? Dotan Cohen http://technology-sleuth.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx