Web server permissions!

[version2]

So I have my debian httpd server working. The problem is, php cannot write to files. I can "chmod o+rw" but it's annoying to have to do that to everything. Is there a way I can just give php permissions to edit files!?

[sdousley]

What you're best off doing in that situation is assigning the files the owner that php wil access them as (http or apache)

chown apache:apache /var/www/localhost/htdocs -R

assuming the webroot is /var/www/localhost/htdocs. This will assign all files in there the owner user apache and the owner group apache. Then assign the permissions accordingly...

chmod 644 /var/www/localhost/htdocs -R

This will assign rw permissions to the apache user, and read to everyone else, except others in the apache group (which shouldn't be anyone else anyway)

[version2]

Says apache:apache is an invalid user.