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Moving a root directory to a separate partition

I'd like to create a new partition and move the contents of the /var directory to it for the security reason of having /var/www and other subdirectories "mounted" with nosuid, noexec, and nodev ...
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Specific directory permission for one user using sftp

My web server structure looks like this: /Home/User/Public_Html/Website_one /Website_two /Website_three/Directory_one ...
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Owner & Group setting for OpenCart install on CentOS 6.3

I'm setting up a development server on a HP microserver with CentOS 6.3. I'm relatively new to Linux and have ran into some issues/confusion. I have the server fully setup/updated with yum. It's a ...
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Apache 403 Forbidden on sub folders?

I can view all files in the root directory (/var/www) but as soon as i enter a sub directory (eg /var/www/test) i get a 403 Forbidden error. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04.01. Have tried searching for ...
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How to configure permissions to allow apache to securely have access to a file in a shared environment?

This is a follow up question from my previous, but I felt it might be more Linux based. http://serverfault.com/questions/414207/how-to-set-linux-permissions-to-allow-apache-to-have-access-to-a-file ...
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Give permission to view files

I am new with servers and I started learning about Cloud servers. My server has Debian. I installed apache, php, and vsftpd and I added users with adduser <user>. Then I gave permission: ln ...
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Permission Advice for Webserver

The Linux box I'm managing is used mainly as a web server. The owner of a site wants to give a new user access to the site so that they can do some work on it. I've created the user account (vinod) ...
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svn and webserver files ownerships

I've an issue with files ownerships. I have a drupal website and the "files" folder needs to be owned by "www-data" in order to let the users to upload files with php. However I'm now using svn and ...