hello there
i am running a vps using lxadmin
but lately a problem started occuring that is killing my sites

for example
when using my joomla to install something
when accessing it via ftp i dont have the ownership to chane anything in it
because when navigating via the file manager to it i get that the owner is apache instead of admin ( my default ftp user )

how can i solve that ?

regards
ahmed

This is because PHP is running as an Apache module therefore anything you upload via your script will be owned as Apache.

You can adjust this by installing/enabling something like SuPHP which will allow you to run PHP as your user or allow you to specify a user for PHP to run as.

http://www.suphp.org/Home.html

Yep suPhp is best bet.

Get suPhp, PHPSuExec or FastCGI installed which can handle php issues.