Permissions issue HTTP<->FTP

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

"syn_nospam_uw" <syn_nospam_uw@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c040$481f28d9$d9a276b1$15400@news.hispeed.ch. ..
> 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...

I don't see how this is Apache's problem.

D. Stussy wrote:

> I don't see how this is Apache's problem.

Absoultely right, this is not a problem of Apache but maybe there is a
way in Apache to deal with this issue (like a Parameter or something) ?

Regards

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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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