I've installed a second apache instance in a linux box (CentOS 6.6) as a regular user (non-root) with sudo rights. Although the apache installation completed successfully , when i browsed the installation path :
/usr/local/apache2
the owner is root and not the non-root user that i used for the whole process.
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 20 11:42 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 5096 Sep 20 11:42 build
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 6096 Sep 20 10:43 cgi-bin
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 6096 Sep 20 14:13 conf
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 6096 Jul 28 10:43 error
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 6096 Mar 2 2010 htdocs
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 28096 Sep 20 10:43 icons
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1096 Sep 20 11:42 include
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 5096 Sep 20 11:42 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 7096 Sep 20 14:41 logs
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 20 10:43 man
drwxrwxr-x 14 root root 10480 Sep 20 2010 manual
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2096 Jul 28 10:43 modules
Any ideas why this is happening ? Also if i change the ownership of the whole directory tree to non-root user, will apache still be operational and stable ?
Thanks in advance.
