Apache virtual servers permissions and users?

[WipeOut]

Simon Bell wrote:

>The way I work this is to chown /var/www/www.domain.com to the user/group of
>the person who's website the domain related to. Then in the users
>/home/username/ directory i create a symbolic link to there
>/var/www/www.domain.com directory. Users only have access to there own
>website directories and ive never had any problems with permissions.
>

That sounds workable, I will give it a try..

Thanks..

> 
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com] On
>Behalf Of WipeOut
>Sent: 10 February 2004 12:36
>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>Subject: OT: Apache virtual servers permissions and users?
>
>Hi,
>
>Basically following on from the "Apache permissions" discussion..
>
>I have a number of namebased apache virtual servers on my web server.. 
>Something that has always been a major problem is getting it to work 
>properly when it comes to allowing certain users to upload files and 
>manage the sites..
>
>Apache uses a default working directory of /var/www..
>
>So I created the following structure for my virtual servers..
>
>/var/www/www.domain1.com/
>                                                 html
>                                                 logs
>                                                 cgi-bin
>/var/www/www.domain2.com/
>                                                 html
>                                                 logs
>                                                 cgi-bin
>/var/www/www.domain3.com/
>                                                  html
>                                                  logs
>                                                  cgi-bin
>etc..
>
>Then in my httpd.conf I setup the name based virtual servers to use the 
>"html" dir for the web pages, the "logs" dir for logs and the "cgi-bin" 
>for cgi's..
>
>The only access to the server for adding and updating files is SSH or 
>SCP (I don't have FTP on the server at all)..
>
>Now for the problem.. Whenever pages are updated on one of the sites I 
>have to go and make sure the permissions are correct using "root" to go 
>and reset the permissions..
>
>There must be an easier way!! How do all these control panel systems get 
>it right?
>
>I want to be able to say to user1, that he can manage domain1.com and 
>not have to always go in and sort out the permissions when he is 
>finished.. Same for user2 managing domain2..
>
>What would be really nice is if user1 did not have access to domain2 
>eiather and was only alowed to play in his own domain..
>
>If anyone knows how hosting providers get this setup I would really like 
>to know how its done.. The only how-to's I have found seem to tell you 
>how setup the apache virtual servers but not how to manage the users who 
>will be using and running the server and the permissions of those servers..
>
>Thnaks..
>
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