apache2, gallery, and permissions
I'm running the excellent gallery software (http://gallery.menalto.com/index.php) on my server. It serves up photo albums. I'm curious about a FAQ entry from their site. They recommend setting a directory in the httpd root to 777. Is this a good idea? -- Stephen If your desktop gets out of control easily, you probably have too much stuff on it that doesn't need to be there. Donna Smallin, "Unclutter Your Home"
Stephen wrote regarding '[SLE] apache2, gallery, and permissions' on Fri, Nov 12 at 21:34:
I'm running the excellent gallery software (http://gallery.menalto.com/index.php) on my server. It serves up photo albums.
I'm curious about a FAQ entry from their site. They recommend setting a directory in the httpd root to 777. Is this a good idea?
I usually 'chown dsauer:wwwrun /that/dir' then make it 770. The web server has to write to it, and sometimes I want to change things, so I make myself and the web server's group owners. The only directory on a system that should be 777 is /tmp, IMHO. Otherwise, there's almost never a reason to give "other" write access. Almost. --Danny, who wishes the schema for gallery 2.0 would friggin' stabilize, already :)
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