Give PHP permission?

[phatcactus]

Forgive me if this is in the wrong forum; I was torn between the two, but I figure this can apply to more than just PHP.

Basically, I need to give PHP write access to my entire web directory (/Library/WebServer/Documents/), including subfolders, and all the files inside. Permissions freak me out. Anyone care to bail me out?

EDIT: While I'm at it, I might as well set the owner of everything to something consistent.

I'm lookin' through the man pages for chown and chmod. It's all very frightening.

 

[slur]

The group named "www" is the group under which Apache runs, so make the areas you need to write into group-writeable and owned by group "www." PHP will then be able to write there.

 

[WAW401]

use the following commands:

sudo chgrp -R www /Library/WebServer/Documents/

sudo chmod -R g+rw /Library/WebServer/Documents/

 

[phatcactus]

Thanks guys. I kiiinda understand the permissions system a little better now, so I shouldn't be bothering you anymore.