CentOS

On my system it is apache, though as you progress further into the sub directories it changes to root. I suspect it should be root, and that this happened several years ago with an errant command (in the wrong directory).

It's my only web server so I haven't another with which to check.

Thank you.

So /var/www is owned the httpd package and you can see what files have changed their permissions/ownership by using rpm -V httpd. You can use rpm --setperms|--setugids to reset the permissions on all files/directories owned by an rpm.

Mine is:

I will change it back to root. I have a special group assigned that contains myself and my son with 'rwx' which I need to remain, so I don't want to change that.

Thanks - saving this for future reference.