Homepage editing problem

[Job Cacka]

It sounds like they had a problem converting the Apache Config file from the
debian server to the redhat server when they did the upgrade. It does not
make sense to do this otherwise. OR perhaps they did not know how to change
the Router to point to the new server. Although the config file seems more
likely.

It does not seem logical to run the server on one machine and store the
files on another. Especailly when the newer blade server possible has more
computing horsepower for server side scripting. This could also be a reason
to leave the apache server on the debian box. The newer scripting language
might not be backward compatible.

To fully understnad the implications of switching the apache server to the
newer blades you will probably have to try to do it. Do plenty of research
before hand though. Try to map how the process works.

To answer your permissions problem.
  Create a group on both servers.  -- use the 'Users and Groups' option in
the GUI on Red Hat
  Assign the three users to the group. -- use the 'Users and Groups' option
in the GUI on Red Hat
  Make sure the user that runs the apache web server is not a member of this
new group.
  Change the group ownership to the web files. -- Use the chgrp command
  Only allow the files to be modified by this new group. -- Use the chmod
command

Hope this helps,
Job Cacka

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Krassen Deltchev
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 1:28 PM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: Homepage editing problem


Krassen Deltchev schrieb:

>Hello,
>
>i have a very odd problem:
>i am the new net admin of a lab,which has a homepage/webserver on a RHEL
>3 server with Apache;
>there are three persons(users) ,who should do a homepage editing on the
>internet site of the lab;
>i started to work at the lab a month ago and the former admin "disliked"
>to explain to me all the details  regarding this problem,i know several
>things about what happened before i got the job:
>-the webserver resided on a debian machine and then it was moved on a
>blade server with RHEL 3
>-afterthat the bladeserver was upgraded...
>
>

>-now there are two servers- the debian one and the blade server one ,on
>which the webserver is running...
>
>
sorry ,the apache server is on the debian machine and there i can edit
the httpd.conf in etc/apache-ssl
so all the files(including the index.html) are on the blade server with
RHEL 3 ,but the apache installation is on the debian server.

>i have contacted the former admin per e-mail ,but he didn't dare to give
>me a reasonable explanation at all...so i'm asking here at the
>forum/mailing-list ,if someone can help me to solve this issue....
>what i know till this moment and what  my suposures are:
>-as a root i can edit everything -the homepage too,
>-the three users ,whom i  want to grand the editing option use mainly
>Dreamweaver 8 with sFTP,
>-they clame that they cannot edit the index.html nor to delete it.
>------
>-i checked the user rights for the index.html; and the owner of the
>index.html(which is one of them ?!) has all kind of rights : -rwx,the
>group has also -rw rights,
>-i thought that there is something in apache.conf regarding this issue
>,but i'm really unsure,what should i look for ,or better to say :how can
>i specify  a special owner and a group ,whom should be given the rights
>for editing the page.i don't know even ,if there are some special tricks
>for ediing the apache.conf,like stopping the process(server) and
>restarting it after editing apache.conf;so !please! give me detailed
>advices regarding how to edit such importaint configuration files if i
>need to!
>
>-example ,let's say:
>--the first user has a user id 1002
>--the second user has a user id 1003
>--the third user has a user id 1004
>--the group should be with id 33,this i have found out using gFTP,so how
>should i change the settings on index.html ,so only these three users
>can do their job?
>-surely i can give all users the rights to edit the page ,but this is
>not the point of the discussion!
>-I need to specify these and only three users ,whom should be granded
>these editing rights.
>
>Sorry if my explanation is not in the right way of thoughts ,but i'm
>still a newbee and the team ,which i'm working for is really great ,so i
>don't want to disappoint them.
>
>Thanks in advance for your replies!
>
>Krassen
>
>
>


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Krassen Deltchev
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Medizinische Fakultät
Institut für Physiologie
Abteilung für Neurophysiologie
MA 4-155
Universitätsstrasse 150
44801 Bochum
e-mail: deltchev at neurop.rub.de
            Krassen.Deltchev at rub.de
tel.work:    0234.32.24918

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