Permissions, Plesk and Linux!

[ambrit]

Hi, I am a bit of a newb when it comes to Linux, but have got plesk installed and running happily on ubuntu. The only thing I need to get working is file access. We develop websites in house and I need to give some users access to the httpdocs folder in each website (in var/www/vhosts).

I can see that plesk sets the owner of the folder as the ftp user and group access to read only, but I have modified this in the terminal (at the risk of breaking plesk) and the folder now has drwxrwxrwx with the owner as my test user, but when I try to access this from my Mac I can connect to the folder and see the contents but not read or modify.

Does this mean that Plesk is over riding what I am doing or is there a more sensible way of getting physical access to the websites directories (has to be via a network share somehow)

How does everyone else do this?

thanks in advance

 

[breun]

Just connect to the server via FTP or SFTP as the domain's user. Setting directories to 777 is not a good idea. You could also connect as root, but then you better not forget to set the owner and group correctly when creating new files/folders or the domain user won't be able to modify/delete those files.