I am using Centos 6.6.
I made a group with the following call
sudo groupadd www-OtagoHarbour
sudo usermod -G www-OtagoHarbour apache
sudo usermod -G www-OtagoHarbour OtagoHarbour
When I enter
more /etc/group
I see
www-OtagoHarbour:x:501:apache,OtagoHarbour
I enter
sudo chown apache /var/www/dropbox
then
sudo chgrp -R www-OtagoHarbour /var/www/dropbox
sudo chgrp -R www-OtagoHarbour /var/www
sudo chmod -R g+r /var/www/dropbox
sudo chmod -R g+r /var/www
However, when I log is as OtagoHarbour and enter
ls /var/www/dropbox
I get
ls: cannot open directory /var/www/dropbox: Permission denied/var/www/dropbox
EDIT:
$ ls -ld /var/www/dropbox /var/www /var
drwxr-xr-x. 22 root root 4096 Mar 25 2014 /var
drwxr-xr-x. 17 root www-OtagoHarbour 4096 Jan 9 22:29 /var/www
drwxrwx--x. 2 apache www-OtagoHarbour 4096 Jan 10 11:30 /var/www/dropbox
ls -ld /var/www/dropbox /var/www /var
. – Sepahrad Salour Jan 10 '15 at 16:57