Apache user

the_lynx123

Hi, I have a webserver running on a computer, and I am trying to copy files on another computer through a web application. Both computers are in a network.
The problem I am having is, it is giving me "Permission denied" on the destination folder, so I tried to change its permissions, and I gave "Full Control" to everybody in the domain and everything worked just fine. But, for security reasons, I have to have certain restrictions as far as the permissions go.

When apache is running, what user name does it use on the client computer?(or what user does it run as?). In the web server, I am logged in as Administrator and it should be able to move files, but I think Apache uses a different user name (?).
Any help please?
thanks in advance

dagon

i have a server where it runs as apache on another www-data, so you will have to check on your own server, ps or top among others will show you the user.

the_lynx123

but how do i check what user Apache runs as? I ran

echo exec('whoami')

and it returned : nt authority\system
what does this mean?

I looked for "User" in the httpd.conf and I didn't find anything.
😕
Plz help

the_lynx123

nvm, i got it 😃 . I had to go to Start->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Services
Find Apache, right click->Properties. Then go to Log On, change to This Account, browsed my user name in my domain and that worked ^.

Thanks for your reply

dagon

mentioning windows probably would of helped.

big_nerd

the_lynx123,

As a word of warning - if this is a corporate setup you may not want to use your own cred's.

I had a gentleman at my company do this with the backup service for our intranet server, and he left the company, so we disabled his account, due to this, we werent backing up for too long before someone found it.