Apache running as root instead of user specified in httpd.conf

apache-2.2 centos permissions wordpress

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Apache always needs to start as root, then it uses setuid to switch to user context of specified user in httpd.conf.

Without root (uid = 0) you can not create listening socket on privileged ports (below 1024)

For details read this documents:

From first link:

# ps -ef | grep -i http | awk '{print $1}'
root
apache
apache
apache
apache
apache

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Olga

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Olga over 1 year

I'm trying to render simple bootstrap components using react.

This is index.html:

<!doctype html>
<html>
 <head>
  <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.3.min.js"></script>
  <script src="js/bootstrap.js"></script> 
  <script src="js/react/react.js"></script>
  <script src="js/react/react-dom.js"></script>
  <script src="js/browser.min.js"></script>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>To Do List</title>
  <link href="css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet">
 </head>
 
 <body>
    <div class="container" id="headContainer">
      <div class="row">
          <div class="col-sm-1">
              <img src="Panter.jpg" class="img-responsive">
	      </div>
          <div class="col-sm-8">
               <h1 style="color:Pink">To do, to do, to doooo</h1>
          </div>
       </div> 
	   <div id="list">
	      
	   </div>
    </div>	
	<script type="text/babel" src="js/app.js" ></script>
 </body>
</html>

This is app.js:

var ListOfActionsRendering=React.createClass({
   render: function() {
	   return (	 	    
	    <div class="accordion" id="listOfActions">
		   <div class="accordion-group">
		      <div class="row">
			     <div class="col-sm-2">
				    <a class="accordion-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#listOfActions" href="#defaultList">
		               <h4 id="nameOfGroup"> Основной список </h4>
		            </a>
				 </div>
				 
				 <div class="col-sm-2">
				    <div class="btn-group">
		               <button class="btn" onclick="onEditListOfActionClick()"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-pencil"></i></button>
		               <button class="btn"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-remove"></i></button>
		            </div>
				 </div>
			  </div>
		   </div>
		   
		    <div class="accordion-body collapse in" id="defaultList">
	            <div class="accordion-inner">
	                <a href="#defaultList">
		                <h5>  </h5>
	                </a> 
		        </div>
	        </div>
		</div>
		       
        );
   }
});

ReactDOM.render (
   <ListOfActionsRendering />,
   document.getElementById("list")
);

I dont have any errors in chrome console, but components are not shown.

In snipper I have an Error:

message: Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token <, filename: http://stacksnippets.net/js, lineno: 16, colno: 6

Colin 't Hart over 11 years

You're running the check as root and it's showing the command "grep apache" as the process root is running! Try ps -ef | grep apache instead.
Windows Ninja over 11 years

Bah...too early in the morning for stupid mistakes like that. So the user it is running as it "apache" listed at the end?
Colin 't Hart over 11 years

First column is user.
Windows Ninja over 11 years

So what am I missing here? If httpd.conf specifies apache should run as xxx, why don't I see that when I run this?
janneb over 11 years

What you're missing is that apache is not running at all. As mentioned by Colin, the process you're seeing is the grep command you're just executing.
Windows Ninja over 11 years

Sorry, I see what I've done now. Going to update the question to ask things more accurately.

Windows Ninja over 11 years

So am I supposed to let it run as root and then change it on a per site basis to a different user rather than universally? It doesn't really seem secure to let httpd run as root.
Windows Ninja over 11 years

Having read through the link, I've already got this setup correctly. However, I still can't upload to wp-content from WP even with the permissions set to 755. If WP (and httpd) are running as UID 513, as it says it is, shouldn't it be able to upload files without issue?
Ken S. over 11 years

@CrabbyAdmin which users is the owner for the wp-content/ directory? It should be the apache user (513 in your case). <code>chown -R 513 wp-content/ </code> should do it for you.
mig81 over 11 years

@CrabbyAdmin please post ls -ld wp-content
Windows Ninja over 11 years

<pre>ls -l wp-content</pre> shows that the user and group are set to the same as what the httpd user uses...the only difference is that is shows the actual user name here instead of the UID (513).
Windows Ninja over 11 years

ls -ld wp-content output: drwxr-xr-x 9 xxx yyy 4096
mig81 over 11 years

@CrabbyAdmin : is xxx equals to 513/httpd?
Windows Ninja over 11 years

Sorry to waste your time, but I just figured out what is going on. The initial permissions are fine but for some reason, WP is changing the permissions of files after they are uploaded (to 533) so files can't be overwritten with the new permissions. I'm not sure why it is doing that, but it is a different question. I'll award the answer to you though as it would have solved things had this been the true issue.
thinhvo0108 almost 7 years

You're welcome, if you think my answer is useful, please consider an up-vote, too, thanks! If you have further issues with reactjs, you can let me know, I will try to help if I can!