Re4: newbie question

["Glenn A. Bookout" <gblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Howdy:

On Saturday, Dec 20, 2003, at 12:21 US/Pacific, Terry Wilson wrote:

> I have the server sitting here alongside my production machine, and 
> usually edit the pages in a text editor right on the server. I have 
> changed the Owner of the website directory I'm dealing with to my 
> user account, and left the Group as www. Now I can do as I please 
> with the files and folders. Is this okay, as long as the Group is 
> www? I'm still a little fuzzy on the permissions stuff.
   You can change the Owner as you wish, but for a number of reasons 
( including that given below for "www" ), it's best to leave it as 
originally given, and doing all your creation/editing offsite, then 
using an FTP client to move the files to your server area.

   By doing editing offsite you also reduce the possibility of errors 
or corrupt files being served from a live site.

   As for "www", changing from this group could lead to potential 
future hard-to-diagnose problems as your site(s) or Tenon's server 
programming evolves.  When in doubt, don't change defaults!

   If you use Tenon's tools to create an FTP user ID and password, 
you can then login to that site using them ( even for local editing ) 
and still maintain the server's default permissions.

   HTH.

Glenn

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