Windows – FTP Directory Permission Issue: does granting access to a directory also grant access to other parallel directory

After more research it seems like another (possibly better way) to answer this would be to setup the www folder like so.

1. sudo usermod -a -G developer user1 (add each user to developer group)
2. sudo chgrp -R developer /var/www/site.com/ so that developers can work in there
3. sudo chmod -R 2774 /var/www/site.com/ so that only developers can create/edit files (other/world can read)
4. sudo chgrp -R www-data /var/www/site.com/uploads so that www-data (apache/nginx) can create uploads.

Since git runs as whatever user is calling it, then as long as the user is in the "developer" group they should be able to create folders, edit PHP files, and manage the git repository.

Note: In step (3): '2' in 2774 means to 'set Group ID' for the directory. This causes new files and sub directories created within it to inherit the group ID of the parent directory (instead of the primary group of the user) Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setuid#setuid_and_setgid_on_directories

OK anyone who has had this problem I have one solution.

After days with engineers I found the real problem as expected it was in ISA 2006

Yes, you need to create a publishing rule and uncheck the READ box.

However if you are on an EDGE configured firewall one problem may exist. EDGE when created creae an Unrestricted Access Rule take a look you will see it. It looks harmless right. NO

Now right click on the rule you will see another configure ftp click on it.

Uncheck the read box here.

Save

Your done you will be able to upload and download just fine.

Many thanks to Robert McMurray of Microsoft he helped me greatly.

I did some tests afterwords like remove the orgininal publishing rule then I couldn't log in. So I put it back in everything works fine.

So people out their with an EDGE ISA2006 configuration I would check this out.