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[Ben Hornedo]

It may be that /var/www is the web servers document root and
/var/www/apache2-default is a directory that contains a basic apache welcome
page. I believe that the default user and group for apache2 in Ubuntu is
www-data. So you may want to try: chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www

You may also want to check the /etc/apache2/sites-available/default file
because in a default install it will redirect everything to that
apache2-default (welcome page) folder. You would just need to comment out
the RedirectMatch (around line 16), then you can install Joomla either
directly into the /var/www directory or create a /var/www/joomla directory
for it (don't forget to set ownership permissions)

Let us know if that works.

Thank you,
Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: joomla-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:joomla-bounces at lists.nyphp.org]
On Behalf Of bz-gmort at beezifies.com
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 1:23 PM
To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla
Subject: Re: [joomla] Template install issues

masimko at optonline.net wrote:
> I'm having a hard time installing any templates that I have downloaded 
> so far. I'm thinking it is a permission problem. I'm using a laptop with 
> Ubuntu and accessing joomla in a subdirectory of the web root directory.
> 
> It appears that all directories are owned by root:root under the web 
> root directory. Inside the joomla directory, all ownership is 1010:1010.
> 
> I can't find that in my /etc/group file. So, I think that I should chown 
> root:root -r * in th /var/www/apache2/joomla directory.
> 
> Any opinions about this?
> 

Look for the httpd.conf or apache.conf file

/var/www/apache2/joomla seems like an odd directory structure to me, are 
you sure it's not /var/apache2/www/joomla?

In any case, that aside, according to this site:
http://www.control-escape.com/web/configuring-apache2-debian.html

The most likely place for your apache config file is:
/etc/apache2/

And the most likely name is apache2.conf

So, find that config file and read it in whateever your favorite manner 
is(more, less, cat, print, vi, vim, kedit, whatever)

Look for 2 lines in the file:
User unix-userid
and
Group unix-groupid

Generally, I've found them to be:
User apache
Group apache

But it could be different in your case.

That is the userid and group that apache is running as, so if your going 
to chown files(and chgrp for that manner) change them to whatever the 
user and group directives are set to.
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