messed up server permissions with chown

[serialbox]

I am desperate for some quick help. I am fairly new at being a webmaster and I seem to have done something where every site except one is getting 'permission denied'.

I am on a dedicated virtual with mediatemple, running apache and centos
I was trying to do something and I did this:

I created a group called joomla

then

chown -R apache:joomla /var/www/vhosts
chown -R hersheysquirt:joomla /var/www/vhosts
umask 002

now... the only website viewable is the one that is belongs to the user "hersheysquirt" and none of hte other websites assigned to other users work. they all say "forbidden: you dont have permission......."

is there any way to reverse what i just did?

[drew010]

i think you are going to have to manually reassign ownership to each site folder depending on who they are.
i am making the assumption of course that you have a root folder /var/www/vhosts and below that it goes /var/www/vhosts/someuser /var/www/vhosts/anotheruser
you should reassign ownership to each of those folders to the respective users.

[serialbox]

thanks for that. figured it out this morning some time.

now Im just playing around with how to use the umask to link ftp group to the apache group.

fun fun fun

thanks again