FTP permissions and apache

[White_Wolf]

This probably isn't the right forum to ask in, but:

I am running Apache on Linux Fedora5, on a virtual private server.

I got this problem.
On my forum, every time I try to install an add-on, the newly created files have their permissions set to "apache" as the owner, instead of my FTP account name.

When this happens I cannot change the chmod settings, and I can't even delete the files; neither through my FTP or the server interface (Plesk)

So I guess I really have three questions:
1. How do I change file/directory ownership from Apache to my FTP user name?
2. How do I stop my forum from assigning ownership of files and directories to apache?
3. If ownership can't be changed, how do I at least delete these files from my server?

 

[Greg]

As root you can do

chown user:usergroup file

or

chown -R user:usergroup folder

I don't use Apache so I'm not sure exactly why it does this, but it might be for security reasons. Try it and if something gets fuxxed up just change it back.