OK, I give!!! Still can't overwrite 1

[Cadwalader]

hello....I give up. For the past 2 days, I have been trying to find out how to upload and overwrite in the directory that stores the web pages.

I tried

#chmod 777 /var/

http://www/html/

I get the bash prompt back, and still can't over write.

Then I found out that I had to change the owner of the files to my ftp username. Ok, fine....but I can't figure out how to do it.

Please help!

RedHat 7.3 text only server install (only 'cuz I like the punishment, and I am limited by CPU speed)
CuteFTP
Private LAN Hope I was of some help...
--OR--
Thanks for the help...
--Rich

 

[danielhozac]

You have to chmod the files to be overwriteable too.

chmod -R 0777 /var/www/html

That would chmod all files to be overwriteable and you would be able to upload new files. //Daniel

 

[fluid11]

I don't know about Wu-FTP, but in ProFTPd you have to specify the "AllowOverwrite On" directive in its configuration file, or else you can't overwrite files regardless of Unix permissions.


ChrisP

 

[w1nn3r]

If you have shell access to the webserver, you can try chgrp <username> /var/

http://www/html

and then chown <username> /var/

http://www/html

then you should be fine.

 

[timsr]

You can combine the the group and owner on one line similar to above byusing chown <owner>:<group> /var/

http://www/html.

Saves some typing and as w1nn3r stated above, you should be fine.