Posted by Ugo Bellavance on 10/02/33 11:08

Jason Wong wrote:
> On Saturday 12 February 2005 11:28, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
>
>
>> Please forgive me if this specific question has already been
>>addressed, but I'm doing tests to figure out what are the minimal
>>permissions I can give on my files and folders for a PHP application
>>and I just can't find it (even by searching this list). Feel free to
>>redirect me to existing documentation that I woule have missed, if
>>needed.
>
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&m=105793487024873&w=2
>

Thanks, so two questions remain obscure:

If the needed permissions for standard PHP files and directories are
'r' on files and 'r-x' on directories, how can I set my umask so that
files and directories are always created as such? I looked up 'man
umask' and it seems to treat files and directories the same way. Maybe
that is impossible, but I logged in via FTP to a server of a web hosting
company, and it implements just this: creates directories as rwxr-xr-x
and files as rw-r--r--.

Another thing... how should I configure ownership on the files?
root as owner, apache as group and no permissions for others?

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