[thelist] Permissions after FTP?

Diane Soini dianesoini at earthlink.net
Sun Oct 19 16:55:09 CDT 2003


I have created a new, non-admin user on my Mac OSX. Each user gets 
their own web site by default (using http://localhost/~username). I can 
FTP files from another (Windows) computer to that user's web site 
(using Dreamweaver), but the file permissions end up too restrictive to 
browse them. Short of manually setting the permissions from the 
Terminal, how to I make it so that any files uploaded to the server 
have the permissions set so that they can be browsed?

Also, is there any way to allow web pages in the user sites to be able 
to use links that start with "/" but not have those links point to the 
root web site? There is already a site in the root directory 
(/Library/WebServer/Documents), but I don't want links in this user's 
web site to point there if they start with "/". I don't know how this 
is done since I don't understand all the Apache terminology.

This is all just for local development.

Thanks in advance,
Diane



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