apache user nobody99

[jeffpoulsen]

We have had a problem running a php script that write a csv file. The error is permission denied. I found that in the phpinfo apache is running as the user nobody99(99). I am told that we need to have apache run as the user apache in order to fix this. I have two questions:

1) Does changing the apache user to a more powerful user weaken security?

2) How would I go about changing the user using WHM?

I hope someone could shed some light on this for me.

Thanks, jeff

[Amit Deshmukh]

You need check the following file and the permission of apache :-

# pico /etc/passwd

Regards,
Amit

[madan.cpanelnet]

1) Quick fix.. you can apache with phpsuExec or mod_suphp which will then run all scripts as user:user

But you must understand pros/cons of this... before doing it.


Workaround
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2)

Please change the folder permissions to 777 where the php script write a csv file..


example.. if the php script writes the csv file to /home/user/public_html/csv/

change the permissons on folder to 777

cd /home/user/public_html/

chmod 777 csv/ -R


You can do this from your file manager as well.


all csv file will now be written inside folder /home/user/public_html/csv/

say file1.csv , file2.csv

[inertz]

How to auto chmod for folder to 755 and file to 644
I mean recursively.
I try with chmod -R 755 folder
then chmod -R 644 *.* but it wont work

[darren.nolan]

find -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; 2>&1
find -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; 2>&1

Make sure you are in the appropriate home folder before commencing. Eg;

cd /home/username

before you run both those commands.