[BlueOnyx:10513] Joomla Permissions Question

[Marcello Torchio]

Hi guys,

i write this mail to understand if there's a way to make possible jommla's
installation able to write folders on BO web appliance.

I will explain my question.
Everytime a customer upload a joomla site via FTP and test it, the system
does not work properly due a lack of write permissions on the folders. I
discovered that is because automatically the system creates files and
folders with the user used in FTP upload and group siteXX. One solution
could be to chmod 777 all files and folders, but in terms of security it is
not the best solution.
I've seen that the running processes of httpd is named "apache", so the
solution tha i have found is to chown files and change them the group from
siteXX to apache and chmod permissions for folders to 775 and files to 664
and all works well.

Is there a way to do this automatically or another way that i've not
evaluated to get the joomla CMS work without these modifications?

This is only and example, but i've the same problem on other CMS like WP,
e-commerce solutions like OsCommerce and custom PHP sites that needs to
write files or upload things.

Thank you and sorry for my english

Greetings

Marcello
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