It's hard to find Mac-specific answers to this question on the web, so I'm hoping someone out there can put this one to rest for me? My permissions are screwed up on my sites and I'm not sure how to fix them without just slamming a recursive 777 on everything which is quite obviously incorrect.
Thanks!
On my 10.6 system:
vhosts folder:
owner:root
group:wheel
permissions:755
vhost.conf files:
owner:root
group:wheel
permissions:644
2 month old thread, but better late than never! On 10.6, I have my webserver documents folder set to:
owner:root
group:_www
permission:755
_www is the user that runs apache under Mac OS X. I then added an ACL to allow full permissions to the Administrators group. That way, I can still make any changes with my admin user without having to authenticate as root. Also, when I want to allow the webserver to write to a folder, I can simply chmod to 775, leaving everyone other than root:_www with only read/execute permissions (excluding any ACLs that I have applied)