folder permission levels

hi guys.. want to confirm if the permission levels i am setting in my hosting account safe.. I set the root and all the folders under it with permissions to the server user as read and execute. However, i set read, write and execute permissions for cache, cache_public and tmp folders.. is this permission setup adequate yet safe?

Thanks!

Depends on what way you are running apache:  dso, suphp, fastcgi  .....   

Since you mentioned this, I asked about this in my Server reloaded with WHM/cPanel-Dolphin crying 500 post.  I set it on dso since I got no answers on that topic.  What do you recommend?

Well like i said ...   i run nginx, fastcgi, apc on some of my builds  and run  755, 644 permissions.  

I was trying to set things to get the most out of the build.  It seems to me the site is loading a bit slower than it did on my Nginx/PHP-FPM build. 

Hello

This indeed depends on the configuration. When running dso, I would recommend you enabling mod_ruid2. That way files can be executed from your cPanel user and you can keep the 755 permissions for folders and 644 for files. 

More information about mod_ruid2 is available at:

http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/EasyApache3/ModRuid2

If you want i can log back into the server and tweak a bit to improve speed.

Oh yeah, we were going to look over things.  If you don't mind doing that.

I was asking for the second WHM/cPanel server, not the one we did the restore on.  However, he told me that he had been trying to do some tweaks so if you have the time, yes, please look over the settings and see if anything is not as it should be.

Yes, on the new server I did have to set some permission outside of what I normally do.  I will read up on mod_ruid2.

Ok email the info for the second server as well.  

@tmd - could you give more explanation as to what the mod_ruid2 does. I had DSO with Eaccelerator, but never the mod_ruid and all worked well. Will it enhance performance any?