Hello, I'm very new to setting up Apache and now also setting up mediawiki. I have the following directory structure but I think it's wrong that root should own everything. Can someone out there tell me who should be the owner and the group and how can I go and make the changes. [root@ns etc]# cd /var [root@ns var]# ll total 68 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Aug 25 22:39 cache drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 29 2007 db drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 29 2007 empty drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 29 2007 games drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Aug 25 22:39 lib drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 29 2007 local drwxrwxr-x 4 root lock 4096 Dec 29 2007 lock drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug 26 00:50 log lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 29 2007 mail -> spool/mail drwxr-x--- 5 root named 4096 Dec 29 2007 named drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 29 2007 nis drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 29 2007 opt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 29 2007 preserve drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Aug 27 06:09 run drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Aug 23 23:10 spool drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Aug 27 04:44 tmp drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jan 15 2008 www drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 29 2007 yp [root@ns var]# cd www [root@ns www]# ll total 16 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 23 23:10 cgi-bin drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 14 2008 error drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 27 05:00 html drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 14 2008 icons [root@ns www]# cd html [root@ns html]# ll total 4 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug 27 06:49 ac [root@ns html]# cd a* [root@ns ac]# ll total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 27 05:09 cgi-bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 450 Aug 27 06:45 index_blank.htm drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Aug 27 05:09 logs drwxr-xr-x 16 1000 1000 4096 Aug 14 09:39 wiki Thanks in advance
for apache should be running as nobody both as user and group do not run apache as root user cause will compromise your server