Re: [Tikiwiki-users] Installation of Tikiwiki 1.7.4 on Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Woody)

[Dennis H. <de...@fi...>]

Agon S. Buchholz wrote:
> asb@deb:/$ ps -ef|grep apache
> root       398     1  0 23:32 ?        00:00:01 /usr/sbin/apache
> www-data   414   398  0 23:32 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache
> www-data   415   398  0 23:32 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache
> www-data   416   398  0 23:32 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache
> www-data   417   398  0 23:32 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache
> www-data   418   398  0 23:32 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache
> www-data   419   398  0 23:34 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache
> www-data   420   398  0 23:34 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache
> www-data   421   398  0 23:34 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache
> asb        450   437  0 23:41 pts/0    00:00:00 grep apache
> 
> Whatever the first entry is, the rest seems correct.

This is normal. In order to use a privileged port (port number lower 
than 1024, in this case port 80), apache must run it's initial process 
as root. It then forks copies with non-root ownership for doing the 
actual work (for obvious secirity reasons). You should run:

./setup.sh www-data www-data

in your tiki root dir. I also like to run "chown -R www-data:www-data *" 
to set all the ownership to the apache user. This is the safest, 
mostly-always-works configuration.

Dennis