Apache and multiple Virtual Hosts best practices

Harry Hoffman hhoffman at ip-solutions.net
Thu Dec 16 22:09:59 UTC 2004


why does apache need to write to the vhost dirs?

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?
> 
> Thanks
> eric
> 




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