Question

I have recently installed the latest version on my web hosted site. I have everything configured and working. However, the instructions seem to be incorrect, because when I attempt to apply the production file permissions as stated...

* Once installation and configuration is complete, the CGI user needs write access to everything under the data and pub directories and to lib/LocalSite.cfg. Everything else should be read-only.

* Everybody else should be denied access to everything, always.

I start receiving a 403 Forbidden error. It seems to occur when I remove all privileges from the other category. (chmod -R o-rwx <dir>)

Environment

-- TimothyCarroll - 14 Mar 2006

Answer

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This is one of the difficulties in trying to write documentation that covers everyone basically its too dependant on your host's apache configuration - they normally run apache to your public_html as your user, to comparmentalise security problems, but, its not applicable to 100% of systems.

-- SvenDowideit - 07 Apr 2006