Managing apache folder

Posted: September 8th, 2011 | Author: Vincent | Filed under: Development, Linux | No Comments »

The goal here is to allow apache process as well as multiple developers to have read and write permission to all apache files.

What I’m currently doing is:
- Add a new group “dev”

addgroup dev

- Add www-data (or whatever your apache runner user is) to the group “dev”

adduser www-data dev

- Add all developers to the group “dev”

adduser vincent dev
adduser anotherdev dev

- Change apache user “www-data” and all developers’ default group to “dev”

vim /etc/passwd
# each line is a user:
# username:x:userid:groupid:userinfo:script
# now change groupid from the default user group to the groupid of "dev"

- Change umask to 002 (all developers on ssh, all developers on sftp, and www-data)

vim /etc/profile
# change umask to 002
vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config
# change Subsystem to:
Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server -u 0002
vim /etc/apache2/envvars
# add
umask 002

- Change all apache folders to www-data:dev, 775 and files to www-data:dev, 664

chown www-data:dev /home/www-data -R
chmod 775 /home/www-data
find /home/www-data/* -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
find /home/www-data/* -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;

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