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Asked: 2026-05-11T01:43:22+00:00

I am setting up a LAMP server and would like to set Apache’s umask

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I am setting up a LAMP server and would like to set Apache’s umask setting to 002 so that all Apache-created files have the group write permission bit set (so members of the same group can overwrite the files).

Does anyone know how to do this? I know that on Ubuntu, you can use the /etc/apache2/envvars file to configure the umask, but the server is running CentOS.

Update This question is related to another I asked a while ago (Linux users and groups for a LAMP server). If prefered, please update this other question with what the best set-up is to use for having a developer user on a server that can edit files created by the apache user.

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  1. Apache inherits its umask from its parent process (i.e. the process starting Apache); this should typically be the /etc/init.d/ script. So put a umask command in that script.

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