shared web hosting

[brighter]

Hi all. I've got a few questions about file permissions.

For the shared web hosting, does world have to have read access in order for Apache to be able to see it? Isn't this a security hole given that it's a shared server? Shouldn't the files be owned by the user, the group be apache and world not have any access at all?

Is there any way to recursively change the permission of a directory? I uploaded a directory by ftp and it's got permissions of 750. I suspect that in order for apache to see it, it must have something like 755. I need to make this change to the directory and all file/subdirectories under it. Is that possible to do in cPanel or otherwise?

Thanks.

Stephan

[eUKhost.com]

Hello Stephan,

644 permission should be fine. You can keep 755 permission as well on our shared servers but if you are doing this on VPS Hosting or dedicated server then inform our system admins through our helpdesk and they will setup mod_security to secure your data and website hostings.

[brighter]

I found that the fireftp extension for firefox can change directory permissions recursively.

[eUKhost.com]

ummm

didn't use fireftp so far but I will need to try it. You can change permissions recursively if you use linux system for ftp access but never used any windows based ftp program to change permissions recursively.

[brighter]

fireftp is useful if you don't have shell access (many ftp programs can't do this).