Bug 671173

Summary:	Bad owner of /var/lib/awstats
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Pierre Blavy <pierreblavy>
Component:	awstats	Assignee:	Petr Lautrbach <plautrba>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Pierre Blavy 2011-01-20 17:03:02 UTC

Description of problem:
1) Enable the ``update now'' button in awstats
2) click it --> you recieve a bad permission error
Error: Couldn't open file "/var/lib/awstats/something

How reproducible:
always

Actual results:
FIXED with : 
chown -R apache:apache /var/lib/awstats/

Expected results:
A default install of awstats rpm should set the right owner:group for the  /var/lib/awstats/ folder

Comment 1 Petr Lautrbach 2011-01-21 16:13:39 UTC

I don't think that it's good idea to have /var/lib/awstats directory writeable for apache user by default.

The need of write permissions is documented in /etc/awstats/awstats.model.conf so admin can easily find out what is needed: 

# Warning: If you want to be able to use the "AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser"
# feature (see later), you need "Write" permissions by web server user on this
# directory (and "Modify" for Windows NTFS file systems).

AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser is set to 0 by default so default configuration will work without write permissions.

And also are other web servers than apache like lighttpd.