How To setup correct Web servers and file permissions in Linux
Web server file permissions are the most important. If not set up properly, your web server is not able to create / write files and you will get an error, in which case we need to setup the proper web server permissions.
The following setup helps you get the right web server.
To add Web server user which you like.
useradd webmasters
To add Web server Group which you like
groupadd webmasters
To set Special permission
setfacl -R -m g:webmasters:rwX /var/www/html
To set Special permission run two times
setfacl -R -m d:g:webmasters:rwx /var/www/html
To change files ownership
chown -R webmasters:webmasters /var/www/html
To change files permission
chmod -R 755 /var/wwww/html
To change php session files permission
ls -ld /var/lib/php/session/ chown :webmasters /var/lib/php/session/ ls -ld /var/lib/php/session/
Conclusion
In this tutorial, it helps to improve the security of the web server.
