On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 21:31, Andy Canfield <andy.canfi...@pimco.mobi> wrote: > I ran into a problem with a web site I am developing under Drupal; a problem > related to user. And I suspect that the same problem arises witn Subversion. > > On my local copy of that site, sometimes the PHP code creates a directory > and puts files into that directory. The directory had standard permissions > - readable by all but writable only by owner. But that directory is owned by > www-data because apache/PHP created the directory. > > But when I zip it up, upload it to the server in Hong Kong, and unzip it, > all directories are owned by the user on the server who unzipped the > directory. The permissions were preserved; still readable by all but > writable only by the owner. But the owner was no longer the Apache user, it > was the user who unzipped the directory. I had to invent two shell scripts; > one to run on my computer finding all the directories owned by Apache on my > machine, and the second run on the server making all those directories > writable by all.
Use tar to package your files for transport, and it'll preserve the ownership & permissions when extracting, assuming you use tar properly. http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/tar/Attributes.html
