Installing Apache 1.3 as root.

WE want to install apache server as root.Please advice.
I want to run the web server for accesing some pages and scripts on my
machine which run only with root access. Basically my last programmers
had found the hack and it is a 1 line code in the /src/configure file
..If you can share the same with me I will be very grateful

Thanks again for your helping hand, Merry Christmas.
Fransisco

amol@fountaintechies.com (Fransisco) writes:

>WE want to install apache server as root.Please advice.

The advice is: Don't do it.

>I want to run the web server for accesing some pages and scripts on my
>machine which run only with root access. Basically my last programmers
>had found the hack and it is a 1 line code in the /src/configure file
>.If you can share the same with me I will be very grateful

Create a new group, and put your apache user in that group. Make
those files accessible to the group. That's a considerably smaller
risk.

On 25 Dec 2003 13:42:18 -0800, amol@fountaintechies.com (Fransisco)
wrote:

>WE want to install apache server as root.Please advice.
>I want to run the web server for accesing some pages and scripts on my
>machine which run only with root access. Basically my last programmers
>had found the hack and it is a 1 line code in the /src/configure file
>.If you can share the same with me I will be very grateful
>
>Thanks again for your helping hand, Merry Christmas.
>Fransisco


Look in your httpd.conf for the User and Group parameters. Setting
these to root would seem to be a very bad idea.

Why not create a group for Apache to run in and set group permissions
on the files for the Apache group to read-only?