Often I think people create a new user and group called something like "webuser" and make that user own the www directory. Then log in as that user to make changes...or if you want to write to the directory as yourself you can just make yourself a member of the group. Brady > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:35:11PM -0600, Marc Olivier (mcolivier at earthlink.net) wrote: > > I just found out how to get PHP to work on my system (SuSE 8.1 on AMD system). > > I use Quanta to create/edit a file, save it with the ".php" extension, and > > then go to Konsole, log in as SU, and copy the file from > > /home/marco/public_html/filename.php and place it in /srv/www/htdocs, then > > open Konqueror web browser and go to http://localhost/filename/php. > > > > How come this procedure isn't documented anywhere in easy steps like this, and > > how come it doesn't say I need to be in superuser mode in order to even get > > the file saved in the /srv/www/directory? I've been trying for a month at > > least, and lost a lot of self-worth over this issue. > > Just change the permissions on the /srv/www/directory so you can write > to it. Then you can write directly from Quanta to that directory > instead of having to copy it. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list