Virtual Private Server User Guide

The Apache Web Server

This would change the file permissions to look like this:

 rw r  r    1 msmith msmith  430 Sep 13 07:45 index.html

Because all users now have permission to read the file, Apache would be able to 

properly serve the page. However, let's assume that you want to allow other 

members of the 'example.com' group to edit the file. First, you would need to 

make the example.com group the group owner of the file using the chown 

command:

> chown msmith.example.com index.html

The file would now be owned by the example.com user group:

 rw r  r    1 msmith example.com  430 Sep 13 07:45 index.html

Now, to give the members of the group the ability to modify the file, you need to 

make the file write able to the group with the chmod command:

> chmod 664 index.html

The resulting permissions would then look like:

 rw rw r    1 msmith example.com  430 Sep 13 07:45 index.html

Microsoft FrontPage and File Permissions

If you are using Microsoft FrontPage to create and manage a Web site, all of your 

Web content for the site must be owned by the nobody user. Using FrontPage, 

one cannot modify files that are owned by any other user, unless the files are 

universally writeable, which isn't recommended. 

New files created in FrontPage will have their privileges set so they are both 

readable and writeable by the nobody user.

Installing The Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions

If you would like to use Microsoft FrontPage to create and publish your Web site, 

you may wish to take advantage of the extra features available to you by installing 

the Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions. The extensions make it easy to 

publish Web sites from your PC without having to worry about transferring files, 

learning about HTML or Web programming. 

Before you can use these extensions, they must be installed on the virtual host 

that you want to publish to. There are two ways to install the extensions: through 

the VAdmin Web interface and through the fpconfig super command from the 

command line.

For instructions on installing the extensions through the VAdmin interface, please 

refer to the 

VAdmin Guide

.

If you prefer to install the extensions from the command line instead, type the 

following at the command prompt:

> fpconfig

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