[ILUG] Apache Root Directories and Virtual Servers.

[Anders Holm]

Lisa,

Good idea would be to set group permissions instead of individual 
permissions, making sure the wwwrun user is in both groups (assuming one 
group for site a and one group for site b) so wwwrun can also access 
both sites. In that way you can limit group sitea access to only 
/srv/www/a and so forth ...

Does that make more sense to you? I'm in a bit of a rush, so my 
explanation may not be the best, but start looking at that, and you'll 
find the light at the end of the tunnel soon enough.. :)

HTH!

//Anders

Lisa Muir said the following on 25/08/2005 17:49:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I'm trying to setup my home linux machine to serve webpages for two
> trial sites, a and b
> 
> I've got my dsl router portforwarding etc, and have a static IP and
> virutal servers all working fine.
> 
> My problem is directory permissions. 
> 
> The webserver root direcories reside in:
> 
> /srv/www/a
> and 
> /srv/www/b
> 
> I want to give users shell and ftp access to a and other users shell
> and ftp access to b.
> 
> This was cool when I only had one site, but now I find that users of b
> can access a's files and visa versa. Not good.
> 
> I've tried splitting them into seperate groups, but if I apply and
> folder permissions I merely lock out access to the folders to wwwrun
> 
> If I make wwwrun the owner of the folders, then by adding in extra
> users I'm granting both local users access to the respective webroot
> directories.
> 
> Is there another way to define directory access / users  that I can
> use to keep users in their home directories?
> 
> If I make wwwrun have sole permissions to /srv/www and move the home
> directories to /home, will they be able to link to sub-directories of
> /srv/www ?
> 
> Currently they can't log in for shell access if I set it up that
> way... any ideas would be great, I'm confusing myself here calculating
> chmod codes and not seeing any solution on the horizon.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Lisa.