installiing joomla

Rick Stevens ricks at alldigital.com
Tue Sep 17 16:43:02 UTC 2013


On 09/17/2013 07:44 AM, Matthew J. Roth issued this missive:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
>>
>>
>> Both trees (the ServerRoot and all of the DocumentRoots) have to be
>> readable by the user that Apache runs as. Absolutely NO part of the
>> ServerRoot should be _writable_ by the Apache user. It should only be
>> writable by administrative personnel (root, people in the "wheel"
>> group, etc.).
>
>
> Rick,
>
> Thank you for the clear and informative post.  I just have one small
> correction to make.  Apache reads its configuration files as root
> before switching to the unprivileged user and group that it will
> answer requests as.

True and clearer. We use both Apache and nginx here and there are some
subtle differences in the way the two handle configuration data at
various times.
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