On Thursday, February 21, 2002, at 12:35  pm, Pieter Coolsma wrote:

> on 20-02-2002 19:42, Matthew at mtheobalds@mac.com wrote:
>
>> The second thing to verify is that any directory to which you are
>> uploading has permissions 644, or 755. chmod 755 dir-name to change 
>> this.
>
> I have set my homedir as root for Apache. Uploading is going very well. 
> But
> when I request the uploaded files via IE, I get a 403 Forbidden.
>
> Manually changing this using chown 755 * does help. But can you automate
> this? So uploading via FTP gives the proper rights.

See ftpd.conf(5).

And then create the line:

	umask	real	022

in your /etc/ftpd.conf file.

Take care,

~ Matthew