Is there a reason why my pub_http_internet directory has all the read permissions disabled?
Short answer: The default setup for new accounts grants the minimum permissions necessary for your webpages to be accessible. To decide whether you want to grant additional permissions, see the longer answer below. Prerequisite: To understand the following longer answer, you should know a little about Unix file permissions. In short, each file and each directory carries separate read/write/execute permissions for you, for members of your group, and for all other users (the latter category includes the public webserver). You see these permissions when you issue the command ls -l. For files, the meaning of the permissions is self-explanatory. For directories, the permissions have special meanings: read permission is the right to see a listing of the directory contents, write permission is the right to create new files/directories or delete files/directories inside the given directory, and execute permission is the right to attempt to access (read or write contents of) files inside the gi
