File and folder permissions in Centos 5.3

[wtfbrb]

I've been struggling with permissions on my new server, it has CentOs 5.3 and DirectAdmin, pretty much a fresh box. Previously I've had it work where it creates userpackage:userpackage groups and users for each package. Well on my new server that didn't work for other php scripts. So I ran this:

find . -type f -exec chown apache:apache {} \;
find . -type d -exec chown apache:apache {} \;
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

And it fixed it however I don't think it is the most secure way of doing things. I later slipped up and ran it on my /home directory and now I am sure my system is insecure and the DA file manager won't work because it says permissions are wrong.

Any suggestions?

TIA,
Mark

 

[wtfbrb]

Got file manager back for admin

I ran chown -R admin:admin ./admin from home directory and my file manager came back for admin level. However in order to get joomla/drupal to work properly I still have to chown apache:apache ./public_html for all users who use such php scripts. This does disable the file manager for files in public_html for those users, not sure what the fix is as I thought for security reasons I should leave them as da_user:da_user

Any suggestions welcome.

 

[nobaloney]

Rebuild your server using custombuild and make sure to setup php not as cli, but rather as cgi.

Then run the DirectAdmin script set_permissins.sh.

Then check this thread.

Jeff