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Apache permissions settings for default site

I had to rebuild a hosted Fedora server over the weekend which contained a website we use.  I copied all the files off, then copied them back.  An "ls -l" shows all the files in /var/www/html as green/executable with only root having access.  Obviously the pages aren't serving correctly.  I need to change all the files / folders in this directory and subdirectories to be readable but not writeable.  I'm running Apache on Fedora 8.
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05.20.2008 at 06:15AM PDT, ID: 21605788

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#inside /var/
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root  4096 May 18 01:05 www

#inside /var/www/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root      2246 May 18 01:04 index.php
#use group www-data if it excists
 
05.20.2008 at 06:17AM PDT, ID: 21605804

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next time you should use the -p switch with tar in order to preserve permissions.
tar -zcp /root/backup.tar.gz /var/www
 
05.20.2008 at 06:18AM PDT, ID: 21605816
I'm sorry, I'm not sure what this is.  Are those commands to type?  I apologize for my lack of knowledge...
 
05.20.2008 at 06:50AM PDT, ID: 21606093

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#those two commands will reset all file permissions to -rw-r--r-- for files and -rwxr-xr-x for files.
#it will also give the root user and the root group ownership of the files.
for a in `find /var/www -type f`;do chown root.root $a;chmod 0644 $a;done
for a in `find /var/www -type f`;do chown root.root $a;chmod 0755 $a;done
 
05.20.2008 at 06:50AM PDT, ID: 21606095

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Correction: rw-r--r-- for files and -rwxr-xr-x for DIRECTORIES, i'm sorry.
 
05.20.2008 at 07:02AM PDT, ID: 21606207
I ran both of these commands successfully but the "ls -l" is still showing all files as executable and the pages aren't serving.
 
05.20.2008 at 07:03AM PDT, ID: 21606218

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Did you run the command as root?
 
05.20.2008 at 07:03AM PDT, ID: 21606230
Yup.
 
05.20.2008 at 07:51AM PDT, ID: 21606681

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please show the output of 'ls -lah /var/www' [ feel free to remove the filenames... ]
is /var on it's own partition? ( if so, plz show the contents of /etc/fstab )

when u create a new file, what permissions does it get?
 
05.20.2008 at 07:56AM PDT, ID: 21606732
Output of ls -lah /var/www/html - I left a couple files there so you know what I'm dealing with.

drwxrwxr-x+ 4 root root  4.0K 2008-05-20 10:59 .
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  4.0K 2008-01-28 11:27 ..
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  1.2K 2008-05-15 22:08 about.htm
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   26K 2008-05-15 22:08
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   26K 2008-05-15 22:08
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   174 2008-05-15 22:08 cj.css
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   962 2008-05-15 22:08
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  258K 2008-05-15 22:08
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  3.0K 2008-05-15 22:08 index.htm
lrwxrwxrwx  1 www  users    9 2008-05-20 10:59 index.html -> index.htm
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  104K 2008-05-15 22:08
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  1.7K 2008-05-15 22:08 mally_swap.js
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   863 2008-05-15 22:08
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   801 2008-05-15 22:08
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    20 2008-05-15 22:08
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  2.4K 2008-05-15 22:08
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   28K 2008-05-15 22:08
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   533 2008-05-15 22:08
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   814 2008-05-15 22:08
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  1.1K 2008-05-15 22:08
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   12M 2008-05-15 22:08
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  1.2K 2008-05-15 22:08
drwxr-xr-x  2 www  users 4.0K 2008-05-15 22:08 support
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   269 2008-05-15 22:08
drwxr-xr-x  6 www  users 4.0K 2008-05-15 22:08 tickets
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   919 2008-05-15 22:08
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  1.1K 2008-05-15 22:08

 
05.20.2008 at 08:27AM PDT, ID: 21607082

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Please show the content of file /etc/fstab
 
05.20.2008 at 08:30AM PDT, ID: 21607115

[root# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/sda3       /       ext3    defaults        1       1
/dev/sda1       /boot   ext3    defaults        1       2
tmpfs   /dev/shm        tmpfs   defaults        0       0
devpts  /dev/pts        devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0       0
sysfs   /sys    sysfs   defaults        0       0
proc    /proc   proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/sda2       swap    swap    defaults        0       0



 
05.20.2008 at 08:42AM PDT, ID: 21607253

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I have to admitt i'm a bit confused. Seams like your unable to change the file premissions :o
Try creating a new file and see if you can change it's premissions, do please show the output.

touch /var/www/tmpFile
ls /var/www/tmpFile
chmod 0700 /var/www/tmpFile
ls /var/www/tmpFile
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05.20.2008 at 08:44AM PDT, ID: 21607287

[root@html]# touch /var/www/tmpFile
[root@html]# ls /var/www/tmpFile
/var/www/tmpFile
[root@html]# chmod 0700 /var/www/tmpFile
[root@html]# ls /var/www/tmpFile
/var/www/tmpFile
[root@html]#
 
05.20.2008 at 08:55AM PDT, ID: 21607430

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Sorry! it was supposed to be "ls -lah" .. else we cann't see the permissions :o
 
05.20.2008 at 09:01AM PDT, ID: 21607507

[root@html]# ls -lah /var/www/tmpFile
-rwx------ 1 root root 0 2008-05-20 15:43 /var/www/tmpFile


 
05.20.2008 at 03:43PM PDT, ID: 21610946
I solved this by simply doing the following:

chmod a-x (files)
chown apache (files - directories)

Everything is working.
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