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How do I find out who owns a directory?
A. You can use ls -l command (list information about the FILEs) to find our the file / directory owner and group names. The -l option is known as long format which displays Unix / Linux / BSD file types, permissions, number of hard links, owner, group, size, date, and filename.
Should var www be owned by root?
/var/www and all it files/subdirectories should be owned by the user and group that runs apache (apache:apache for example)!! Every single default install of apache, either from source packages or coming with a distro, always had root:root ownership for /var/www/html and such.
What is the var directory for?
/var is a standard subdirectory of the root directory in Linux and other Unix-like operating systems that contains files to which the system writes data during the course of its operation.
Where is var www html?
This is specified with DocumentRoot – so go to the Apache config files (normally in /etc/Apache or /etc/apache2 or /etc/httpd and look for that directive. /var/www/html is the typical/default location.
Who is the owner of / var / www / HTML?
When I navigate to /var/www and run ls -la, it shows me that the /html/ folder has permissions 755 and the owner is root root. I created a simple info.php file in /var/www/html and it’s permissions/owner are 644 and root root (not unexpected, given the permissions/owner of the parent folder).
Where is the / Var directory in Linux?
The /var Directory /var is a standard subdirectory of the root directory in Linux and other Unix-like operating systems that contains files to which the system writes data during the course of its operation.
Who is the owner of the root directory?
The directory is owned root:root so that no-one except root can write to it. The httpd process runs as user apache and has read access to the directory and files by means of the “other” permissions – the xx5 and xx4 in 755 and 644.
Why is / USR not included in the / Var Directory?
Its contents are not included in /usr because situations can occur in which it is desired to mount /usr as read-only, such as when it is on a CDROM or on another computer. /usr, which is generally the largest directory (at least on a newly installed system) and is used to store application programs, should only contain static data.