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Re: [Sheflug] More 'ownership' things :-(



In message <1055968129.29039.1.camel [at] rendezvous.alexworld>
          Alex Hudson <home [at] alexhudson.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 21:16, Ruth Gunstone wrote:
[snip]
> >   The relevant entry seems to be: 
> >   /dev/hda6 /home/ruth/Data vfat umask=022,uid=501	0 0
> 
> umask=000 probably.

That seems to have worked :-)

> 
> But, I really don't think you should do that

oh :-(


> - it's likely that what you want to do already has a solution that you're
> missing.
> 
> You want Apache to be able to write to a directory or something, yes?

Spot on! It's a PHP form to allow various users to update some information,
which Apache/PHP writes back to a file on the server. (The file is then
incorporated by 'include('filename')' in appropriate web-pages.)

But, as I said, the finished PHP will run on a 'proper' Apache server, with
all the permissions correctly set. It's just my test-rig that's wierd!!

We live and learn. In future I'll know not to try to build a website on a
FAT32 system. Obviously, the web-pages would work much better if they were on
the main Linux partition. I set it up this way (on my laptop) in the
(possibly foolish) notion that I'd be able to work on the website using
whichever OS/software I felt was more appropriate for each task.

These "learning opportuniies" are wonderful, aren't they?

Cost me a fortune in paracetamol though ;-)

TTFN!

-- 
Ruth Gunstone          (ruth at bolsterstone dot demon dot co dot uk)

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