How to use chown command in Centos?

[Tommyhara]

On my Admin1 account, I added domain with this account, and create FTP account for this domain
But one strange thing is when I edit file with FTP program then it showed error, don't permit me to edit file content

But when I change ownership for html directory
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/*

then I can change file content on FTP program

I have a question
this command:
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/*
or
chown -R Admin1:Admin1 /var/www/html/*
is exact ?

If possible, give me any examples or details on How to use chown command in Centos?

Thanks in advanced!

 

[zEitEr]

Hello,

Do you use Directadmin? If not then you'd better ask your question on another forums, as directadmin has it's own organisation of permissions.

Content of web-sites on a Directadmin powered servers is located under /home/<username>/domains/<domain>/public_html

By default a FTP user can modify files in a homedir, except those directories and files that are owned by Apache. To have all the files in public_html and private_html owned by the user we use either PHP-CGI (suPHP, fastcgi, php-fpm) or mod_php+mod_ruid2.

So if you do have a directadmin powered server all what you need is to have php running from name of a regular user (not apache); chown files in public_html and private_html to username:usergroup, and have fun.

In /var/www/html on a directadmin powered server only common php applications are located, and they usually do not require FTP access.

 

[Tommyhara]

Hello,

Do you use Directadmin? If not then you'd better ask your question on another forums, as directadmin has it's own organisation of permissions.

Content of web-sites on a Directadmin powered servers is located under /home/<username>/domains/<domain>/public_html

By default a FTP user can modify files in a homedir, except those directories and files that are owned by Apache. To have all the files in public_html and private_html owned by the user we use either PHP-CGI (suPHP, fastcgi, php-fpm) or mod_php+mod_ruid2.

So if you do have a directadmin powered server all what you need is to have php running from name of a regular user (not apache); chown files in public_html and private_html to username:usergroup, and have fun.

In /var/www/html on a directadmin powered server only common php applications are located, and they usually do not require FTP access.

Hi zEitEr,

I am using directadmin and I found an article How to use Chown command on our forum.

Now I can use it well now.

Btw, Thanks for your info!

Tommy