On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 05:11:26PM +0200, Wolfgang Fischer wrote: > On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 13:30:06 +0200, Anita Lewis wrote: > > > This may be a dumb question on the wrong list, but here goes. > > > > I'm learning to set up a server via remote. We've got a mail server going > > and mailman as well. We have apache going and have put some pages in > > /var/www. There's a firewall on it and it is set so that we can send and > > receive mail, access the mail list, bring up pages in a browser, ssh in as > > users, and ftp in as users. We set it up so that root cannot ftp or ssh in. > > > > A user can ftp in and work on pages in their own public_html, but those > > pages would appear in /~username. I want to be able to work on pages in > > /var/www, because those pages come up when the domain name is accessed via > > browser. /var/www is root.root > > > > Is there a way other than dropping the pages off as user via ftp, ssh and su > > to root and move them, to do this? I'm thinking maybe there is a way using > > groups. Or is there something wrong with my thinking about not allowing > > root ftp? > You can change the option DocumentRoot (and maybe some others if you need > cgi) in your /etc/apache/htpd.conf from /var/www to /home/username/public_html.
What I've done personally is to create a webauthors group, chgrp'ed
/var/www from root.root to root.webauthors, and added my regular user
account to that group. It seems to work okay for me.
Mind you, I'm a complete newbie at the webserver thing, so before you
do what I did, you might want to wait and see whether some more
experienced folks point out some glaring problem with it... ;-)
HTH
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