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Alex-Grim
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It's possable, but either way i am creating the files with my User account, not as root. But for some reason i'm not having problems when saving with Gedit...
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There is more to it than the simple difference between user and root... It's about making sure that apache has rights to get to the file... (which is usually a matter of giving rights to the right group/others)
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Thanks, i was just told the same thing in the linux forums i was asking about this on FedoraForum#mypost, and they said the same thing.

This is a big difference from programming .Net sites, I even used php a little with IIS, just to get my toes wet for what i was going to be in for when i made the LAMP switch. Now i wish i'd have never used MS...

Thanx again.
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Windows servers have the same (technically more) permissions than Linux. Permissions on many Windows servers are handled poorly by their administrators.
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