chmod 777 on folders

[sayouly]

I have searched this forum and read every post I can find on this problem but have not found an answer.

I have just set up my server and am getting internal server errors on directories and on some php files that have permissions of 777. So, I changed the permissions to 755 and MOST of the problems went away. However, I still have one domain that is giving errors even after setting the permissions to 755.

Before I moved this site to my new server 777 permissions never caused a problem. So, my question is this. Is there a file in the root somewhere that I can modify to allow directories to have permissions set to 777? It seems to me that there should be a way to change the max allowable chmod setting. Any help would be appreciated.

[fwwebs]

Check the ownership of the file/folder. If you're using PHP susexc, it should be the actual owner versus nobody.

[sayouly]

I hate to be a pain but how do I do check the owner and if it needs changed how do I do that? I am new at managing my own server. Sorry.

[fwwebs]

Using SSH: ls -l (lower case L's)

to changed the owner and group: chown ownername:groupname /directory/filename

usually ownername and group name are the same.

[sayouly]

I just rebuilt apache without PHP susexc and everything seems to be working now. Thank you for your help.

Cheers

[ladierainy]

Using SSH: ls -l (lower case L's)

to changed the owner and group: chown ownername:groupname /directory/filename

usually ownername and group name are the same.

I have this issue with a bunch of images in a directory.

Can I change the owner and group for all files in a directory?

Or do I have to do this one by one, or can I do this en masse?

PLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEE say I can do it all at once, please please please.

lol

[ladierainy]

Nevermind I figured it out and it was pretty easy thank goodness! LOL!