Question on file and folder permissions

[skalaway]

I just moved a content management site to another shared hosting service and have to set write required folders to 777 or I get errors, whereas on the previous shared server running the same LAMP setup, retained the file(644) and folder(755) permissions as uploaded and functioned properly.

I tested this CMS on 3 other shared hosting servers that performed as the latter above. No errors.

Why does most if not all servers today work without requiring permission changes yet this one won't function unless chmod? Would it be old? Should they run phpsuexec? Please advise. Thanks

Their system
Apache version 1.3.37 (Unix)
Operating System Linux
Kernel version 2.6.18.1.dn1.p4

 

[thedaver]

My first guess would be a change in the user/group uid/gid that the web server is running as... When you have to extend perms xx7 to include "all users", it indicates to me that your apache is running as a user you didn't set as owner of the files/folders.

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