Apache and multiple Virtual Hosts best practices

[Mike Burger]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Eric Wagar wrote:

> I have an Apache web server with a few virtual hosts.  The ftp is handled by 
> proftpd, and I have multiple users defined.  These users have their own uid 
> and gid.  The problem comes when Apache is uid apache and need to write to 
> the said directory.
> 
> I am wondering what other people have done to deal with this.  Do people just 
> set all the ftp users uid/gid to the same as the Apache uid/gid on the 
> system?  Obviously this would be an ok solution because apache uid/gid != 
> root.
> 
> What are the other ways you guys have dealth with this?

You can add apache to a group/the groups that own the directory in 
question, you could change the group ownership of the directory to the 
apache group, and make it group writable.  Or you could create a group to 
own the directory, and make all necessary users (including apache) members 
of that group.

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