hot to set default file permission / owner / group

[eluser]vile[/eluser]
thanks for you reply.

yes i tried to set umask now my problem is the owner and group of the file. chown / chgrp is not working. however i tried to change httpd.conf user and group. i set it to apache and dev. it worked but still got problem. i cant use phpmyadmin...

is there away other way to fix this? thanks