Permissions disappearing

I am occasionally having problems with file and directory permissions changing, seemingly on their own. Usually I just CHMOD it and overwrite it with the proper owner.

However, I am at the point now where I cannot even upload a file in FTP to the /web/ directory from the site's admin account! (web7_admin)

Can you teach me how to properly set the file permissions to this account? I have NO idea how they got changed - I didn't change anything. I don't want to CHMOD my /web/ directory to 777.

Thanks!

 

What's the output of

Code:

ls -la /path/to/web/

?

 

Code:

total 289812
drwxrwxrwx 18       1000 users      4096 Feb 29 05:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 web7_admin web7       4096 Sep 30 01:57 ..
drwxrwxrwx  9       1000 users      4096 Feb 28 04:22 administrator
drwxrwxrwx  5        509   509      4096 Aug 31 18:34 cache
-rwxr-xr-x  1 web7_admin web7     104874 Feb 21 08:34 CHANGELOG.php
drwxrwxrwx 21       1000 users      4096 Feb 28 04:11 components
-rwxrwxrwx  1        509   509      2716 Feb 15 22:18 configuration.php
-rwxrwxrwx  1       1010  1010      4372 Jul 21  2007 configuration.php-dist
-rwxrwxrwx  1        509   509      3429 Jun  5  2006 COPYRIGHT.php
drwxrwxrwx  2        509   509     16384 Aug 31 18:34 ebay
drwxrwxrwx  2        509   509      4096 Aug 31 18:34 editor
drwxrwxrwx  2 web7_admin web7       4096 Aug 31 10:56 error
-rwxrwxrwx  1       1010  1010      3745 Jul 21  2007 globals.php
-rwxrwxrwx  1        509   509         0 Feb  6 07:45 googlee65eefbe29bebfe6.html
drwxrwxrwx  3       1010  1010     12288 Feb 28 04:22 help
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root       root       4826 Aug 31 18:57 .htaccess
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root       root       4826 Oct 22 06:26 htaccess.bak
-rwxrwxrwx  1        509   509      4831 Aug 31 18:45 htaccess.txt
drwxrwxrwx  6        509   509     36864 Aug 31 18:34 images
drwxrwxrwx 10       1010  1010      4096 Feb 28 04:22 includes
-rwxr-xr-x  1 web7_admin web7       5216 Feb 21 08:34 index2.php
-rwxr-xr-x  1 web7_admin web7       8481 Feb 21 08:34 index.php
-rwxrwxrwx  1        509   509      4376 Dec 24  2006 INSTALL.php
drwxrwxrwx  2        509   509      4096 Aug 31 18:34 language
-rwxrwxrwx  1        509   509     17977 Jun  5  2006 LICENSE.php
-rwxrwxrwx  1        509   509    561500 Jun 22  2006 logos.zip
-rwxrwxrwx  1        509   509       710 Jun  5  2006 mainbody.php
drwxrwxrwx  7       1010  1010      4096 Jul 20  2007 mambots
drwxrwxrwx  2        509   509      4096 Feb 28 04:11 media
drwxrwxrwx  6       1000 users      4096 Feb 28 04:22 modules
-rwxrwxrwx  1        509   509      2474 Jun  5  2006 offlinebar.php
-rwxrwxrwx  1        509   509      4929 Dec 24  2006 offline.php
-rwxrwxrwx  1        509   509       709 Jun  5  2006 pathway.php
-rwxrwxrwx  1       1000 users       752 Jan 30 04:55 README.patch.txt
-rwxrwxrwx  1        509   509       286 Jun  5  2006 robots.txt
-rwxrwxrwx  1        509   509       199 Jun 27  2006 seal.html
drwxrwxrwx 16 web7_admin web7       4096 Feb 19  2006 squirrelmail
drwxrwxrwx  2       1000 users      4096 Feb  2 04:15 stats
drwxrwxrwx  7        509   509      4096 Feb 28 04:22 templates
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root       root    4771344 Feb 28 04:01 web7_db1.sql
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root       root     279734 Feb 28 04:01 web7_db2.sql
-rwxrwxrwx  1 web7_admin web7         17 Feb 10 09:54 y_key_4c4376b68e0d4684.html

 

Please do this:

Code:

chown web7_admin:web7 /path/to/web/

 

Should I do this recursively? How can I prevent this from happening again? It seems to happen on all the websites on the server.

 

Depends on your application. If there are files or diretories that the Apache user must have write permissions on, then no, otherwise yes.

Please check if there's a cron job or some other process that's changing the permissions.