Homepage editing problem

[Krassen Deltchev]

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