Permissions for static/CGI/PHP app

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I have a static/CGI/PHP app that redirects all domain.com traffic to www.domain.com. With my mad skillz I managed to reset pretty much all permissions recursively in my home folder to 0600, causing the redirect app to stop functioning, giving "403 Forbidden".

What permissions should I set to fix the situation?

Note to self: create a cronjob that saves full recursive directory listings. Note to self 2: don't mess with permissions when in production.

UPDATE

I set the following permissions according to David L's advice:

755 ~/webapps/redir_app/
664 ~/webapps/redir_app/.htaccess (actually a softlink to mercurial repository)
775 ~/mercurial/
664 ~/mercurial/_htaccess (this is the real file)

But it still doesn't work. The frontend log says:

*** /home/xyz/logs/frontend//error_redir_app_php.log ***
[Wed Dec 15 04:53:29 2010] [crit] [client xyz] (13)Permission denied: /home/xyz/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable

What am I missing? Do the permissions of my home directory play a role here - can I even modify them myself? I assume the "chmod -R 0600 .*" would have found its way up there as well.

Accepted Answer

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As the frontend Apache log suggested, the problem were my home dir's permissions. Thanks to WF support for providing the defaults:

chmod 710 $HOME
setfacl -m u:apache:r-x $HOME
setfacl -m u:nginx:r-x $HOME

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answered 16 Dec '10, 06:14

foob
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Thanks for posting. This fixed it for me after screwing up my permissions following a bad suggestion on stackexchange trying to get ssh keys working.

(14 Aug '14, 13:41) morganbird

Answer 2

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By default, the permissions for newly created files and directories are:

Directories - 775
Files - 664

You can probably just fix your redirect's .htaccess file (assuming that's what you're using) permissions. This should kick your app back into life :)

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answered 15 Dec '10, 04:15

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