On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Samuel Waithaka <samwaithaka@gmail.com> wrote:
Bernard,

> change to root : sudo su
> <root password>
> chmod 755 -R /var/www
> or you could chown userid:usergroup id /var/www

> Although not recommended, chmod 777 -R /var/www for all read/write permissions.
I settled for it, (chmod 777 -R).
Tried Martin's though it was quite a pain so I shelved it. Thank you
all for the help.


So now you are happy to write a server that is so easy to compromise?? Basically, anyone will be able to upload files into your webserver's DocumentRoot. 


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