I installed lighttpd on Debian Jessie for serving static files, I have a USB drive mounted at /media/storage, with /media/storage/www as my document root and my lighttpd.conf looks like this:
server.modules = (
"mod_access",
"mod_alias",
"mod_compress",
"mod_redirect",
# "mod_rewrite",
)
server.document-root = "/media/storage/www/"
server.upload-dirs = ( "/var/cache/lighttpd/uploads" )
server.errorlog = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
server.pid-file = "/var/run/lighttpd.pid"
server.username = "www-data"
server.groupname = "www-data"
server.port = 80
index-file.names = ( "index.php", "index.html", "index.lighttpd.html" )
url.access-deny = ( "~", ".inc" )
static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".php", ".pl", ".fcgi" )
compress.cache-dir = "/var/cache/lighttpd/compress/"
compress.filetype = ( "application/javascript", "text/css", "text/html", "text/plain" )
# default listening port for IPv6 falls back to the IPv4 port
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/use-ipv6.pl " + server.port
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl"
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/include-conf-enabled.pl"
I want to be able to edit the website with my normal user "jurre".
So I did "sudo chown jurre:www-data /media/storage/www" and
"sudo chmod 740 /media/storage/www" (so I can read, write and execute files, but the web server can only read). Of course I logged out and back in again and then restarted lighttpd after this. I added a simple index.html with "Hello World!" to test the setup, but I keep getting a 403 forbidden error when surfing to
ls -l in /media/storage/www :
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 jurre www-data 58 May 16 16:43 index.html
I have also checked the lighttpd error log, but it only shows when the web server was shutdown and started again, no errors whatsoever in the log.
Best Answer
You can't access your
www
folder becausewww-data
user only has 4 right (user:groupjurre:www-data
and rights 740) which means no execution right onwww
folder, only read (read folder name and attributes).You need execution right on folder, because executing a folder means opening it (to list files or to enter it). You can do this with your own user
jurre
(right 7) butwww-data
does not have the execution bit set.Change your right on this folder for 750 and try again.