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Old 05-06-2008
Brendan Gillatt
 
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Default Re: Permissions issue HTTP<->FTP

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syn_nospam_uw wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering how ISP resolve the following problem: a customer
> receives an FTP login with read/write access to his httpdocs directory.
> Now if the customer installs let's say Joomla, he will upload the base
> Joomla installation files and then let Joomla through the web do the
> rest. This means that Joomla will be writting files in the httpdocs
> directory of the customer. Unfortunately Joomla will write these files
> with the account (User + Group parameter in httpd.conf) that the web
> server is running on. So that would be www-data on Debian for example.
>
> Now one problem already arises: customer wants to delete the files
> created by Joomla: impossible they are owned by www-data...
>
> There are many other problems arising with this kind of configuration...
> So how can I setup Apache somehow to deal with this problem ? I guess
> that SuexecUserGroup won't help me much as this is only for CGI programs...
>
> Thanks for the help
> Regards
>


http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/worker.html Looks kinda useful,
though I have not really read into it much.

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