UsingWW: Michael Gage - Finding the web server's group name

$inactiveTopic$ Finding the web server's group name

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$user$ Michael Gage - Finding the web server's group name $blueArrow$
8/25/2003; 4:31:12 PM (reads: 1363, responses: 0)

It's possible that the apache server is not running. See the section on restarting the server in http://webhost.math.rochester.edu/webworkdocs/docs/howto/howto_set_up_webwork2
The output of ps -aux | grep httpd is truncated to the width of the screen and you may not be able to find the text "httpd" . You'll want to use one of the alternative methods for finding the group name of the server. Instead use ps -auwwx |grep httpd or ps -auwwxc |grep httpd which will print long lines no matter what the terminal width.

Once you have the user name of the webserver (e.g. www) use the groups command to find out what groups the webserver belongs to:

groups www

www wwdata

The webserver belongs to both the groups www and wwdata.

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