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Re: [cobalt-developers] (no subject)



> Yes, I checked and root does own the file.  Why are files owned by root
> restricted despite the rwxr-x-r-x permissions? Who should I chown the file
> to for it to be accessible?  Sorry, I'm still new to this.
>
> Also this does not seem to be a problem outside the cgi-bin.  What special
> characteristics does a directory named 'cgi-bin' have as opposed to any
> other directory (I always thought that 'cgi-bin' was just a naming
> convention).

The site must have cgi access checked in the gui and then

chown siteadminusername.groupname directoryname
chown siteadminusername.groupname filename

or just
chown siteadminusername directoryname
chown siteadminusername filename

Zeffie