Advice on setting up a stage environment

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Nabeel Moidu wrote:
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> 1) Users should be able to upload files to the apache and tomcat root
> ( of course without upsetting the default permissions on the folder (
> 644 ) and ownership apache.apache and tomcat.tomcat )
> 2) Any code uploaded( I'm using ftp here) by the php developers should
> be automatically owned by apache user. And that uploaded by java
> developers should be owned by tomcat user.
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I'm in a development environment, and what I do is make it owned by nobody, or
apache, whatever, and group developers, and group writable. And we have it set
up that they have sandbox directories to play in, /var/www/html/<username>

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