apache with multi-users

hi,

what is a good way to configure permissions for apache? we set up a
home web server just for fun... /var/www/html only has root access.
what is a good way to set it up so ordinary users on the system can
add content to the root of the default server? also with the cgi-bin?

thanx!
julia

In article <79ad5955.0307181209.47099f2c@posting.google.com >,
juliagoolia301@hotmail.com (Julia Goolia) wrote:

> hi,
>
> what is a good way to configure permissions for apache? we set up a
> home web server just for fun... /var/www/html only has root access.
> what is a good way to set it up so ordinary users on the system can
> add content to the root of the default server? also with the cgi-bin?


you can use an FTP server with virtual users using UID of a true system
user, and chown /var/www/html to that user.

other solution, chmod g+r /var/www/html, and chgrp users /var/www/html,
then add your users to the group "users", so that they can login in FTP
and write to /var/www/html.

third solution : don't add content at httpd root, but into ~/public_html/
this way every user can manage its own content. pro : nothing to do, con
: It's more complicated for CGI

patpro