[TYPO3] Setting Typo3 (or Apache?) to create files and folders with specific Owner-Group values

[Bernd Wilke]

Denis Bilodeau schrieb:
> Any file/folder created by my Typo3 installation (3.5 in process of 
> updating to latest) has for owner and group: "groupname", which means 
> that I don't have all permissions for those files.
> 
> 
> Suggestions I found in searching the mail archive:
> 1: Looking in the Install tool. Of course, but we can set permissions 
> for created files, for created folders, and reset the group of files. 
> But not determine the owner.
> 
> 2: Someone mentioned the Filepermissions or Quixplorer extentions. Not 
> relevant: they are for changing permissions, not setting Typo3 to create 
> files as "such" owner.
> 
> 3: Someone mentioned in a thread that Apache is responsible for this. 
> But no precision on how to set it up.
> 
> Do some of you encountered this problem or have a solution?
> 
> Denis

you have to understand the right-management of an unix-system, which 
differs from windows.

in unix systems there are three stages of permission
	owner
	group
	everyone/world

each of this groups can have
the rights
	Read
	Write
	eXecute
this is coded in bits giving
rwxrwxrwx
||||||+++-everyone
|||+++----group
+++-------owner

normaly notated in octal, as each octal digit includes the right for one 
permission-stage.
(for further information see wikipedia or similar: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system_permissions)

on the other hand every user has at least one group-membership (similar 
to the TYPO3-FE-User)

on creating a file the file attributes owner and group are set to the 
actual user and the first(!) group this user is member of.

a webserver is worked normaly by at least two users:
your access (shell / ftp)
the web-server-process apache-programm which runs the php.

this means two different owner of files as both may create files and 
directories.
normaly all is well if these two users share the same (first!) group and 
setting filemasks to grant full access to group-access (rw-rw-r-- 664)

maybe your configuration just needs to correct the group-entries and 
filemasks, which are the most common errors on webservers where you have 
problems accessing files from TYPO3 (apache-user) and FTP/shell (your 
account).


Bernd
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