[Vtigercrm-developers] Install docs on Wiki need update

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 08/06/12 05:54, Prasad wrote:
> Alan,
>
> Thanks for bringing up the issue, we plan to update the following with
> respect to file/folder write permission:
>
> chown -R <apache_user>:<apache_group> vtigercrm_source
> chmod -R u+rw vtigercrm_source
>
> OR
>
> cd vtigercrm_source
> chown -R a+rw cron/ Smarty/templates/ Smarty/templates_c/ cache/
> modules/ parent_tabdata.php tabdata.php user_privileges/ test/ storage/

Hi Prasad,

The second suggestion should be chmod not chown (but I am sure that was 
just a typo) but there is no need to make anything writeable by all... 
The only process writing to anything in the vtiger tree should be apache.

To be honest, the only thing I have ever *needed* to do after extracting 
the source tarball is to chown it to the apache user:group.

In my experience, "Best/Standard Practice" would be to make all files 
rw-r--r-- (644) and all directories rwxr-xr-x (755) and then chown 
everything to the apache user:group or apache:nobody depending on the 
linux distribution.

Hope this helps.

Alan

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