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Nicholas Hebb
18,872 PointsRecommended owner and permissions for public html folders?
I've set up a new Linode VPS to create some projects on, and following their guide (listed below), the domain folder is owned by root with permissions set to 750. I thought these were typically owned by the non-root user with permissions set to 755. Is their guide missing some chown and chmod steps?
For reference, Linode's Apache2 / Ubuntu 14.04 instructions (https://www.linode.com/docs/websites/hosting-a-website#configuring-name-based-virtual-hosts) are as follows:
# Disable default virtual host
sudo a2dissite *default
# Create domain folder and sub-folders
cd /var/www
sudo mkdir example.com
sudo mkdir -p example.com/public_html
sudo mkdir -p example.com/log
sudo mkdir -p example.com/backups
# Create the virtual host file and edit per example provided
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/example.com.conf
# Enable the website
sudo a2ensite example.com.conf
# Restart Apache2 to apply new configuration
sudo service apache2 restart