Setting the umask of the Apache user

This was the first result in Google search results for "CentOS 7 apache umask", so I will share what I needed to do to get this work with CentOS 7.

With CentOS 7 the echo "umask 002" >> /etc/sysconfig/httpd -method did not work for me.

I did overwrite the systemd startup file by creating a folder /etc/systemd/system/httpd.service.d and there I created a file umask.conf with lines:

[Service]
UMask=0007

Booted and it worked for me.

Apache inherits its umask from its parent process (i.e. the process starting Apache); this should typically be the /etc/init.d/ script. So put a umask command in that script.

For CentOS and other Red Hat distros, add the umask setting to /etc/sysconfig/httpd and restart apache.

[root ~]$ echo "umask 002" >> /etc/sysconfig/httpd
[root ~]$ service httpd restart

More info: Apache2 umask | MDLog:/sysadmin

For Debian and Ubuntu systems, you would similarly edit /etc/apache2/envvars.