Re: HELP! My HTTPD website keeps breaking because the custom directory/user permissions are being reverting for some reason!

techay@protonmail.com(techay@protonmail.com) on 2017.05.28 19:57:41 -0400:
> Hi there,
>
> I have been using httpd for quite a while now, but after a new project/website having to have read/write/execute permissions (unsafe, I do realise..) I decided to:
>
> 1. add root to the www group,
> 2. chown -R www:www /var/www/htdocs
> 3. chmod -R 775 /var/www/htdocs
>
> Everything was running smoothly, until I was testing out the functionality and realised I couldn't use php to write new directories or files, so I checked the permissions and for some reason they have all switched back to: root:daemon with permissions of 755.
>
> Now, I'm guessing this is a security feature in some way, but for my purposes and he type of service I'm creating it is breaking everything. Can someone tell me what to man page to look up for this or something? Time is of the essence because I need this website runing properly by tomorrow at latest.
>
> Many many thanks!!

none of the replies to this mail help in resolving the actual problem.

please post your httpd.conf and a listing of your directory, ie. ls -lR
/var/www

and a dmesg.