Brian, You're not doing anything wrong. Apache runs as www-data in Ubuntu, so any file created by Apache will belong to that owner:group. Add yourself to the www-data group and life will become easier. Cheers - Miles On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Brian Hazelton <bdh_2003@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > I know this is not quite on topic but I do not know where else to turn. I > needed to reinstall ubuntu and now I cannot change myself to be the owner of > var www. I had been able to change myself to the owner of it and create, > delete and modify any files I wanted before I had to reinstall. Now it seems > the change is not taking effect. What happens is I use the sudo chown > command and it shows that I am the owner. I have a script that creates a > file when I go to the page and it creates a file and has www-data as the > owner, not me. What am I doing wrong? > Thanks, > Brian > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Miles Thompson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "The piano keys are black and white, But they sound like a million colours in your mind" Spider's Web - Katie Melua
