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Wes Meltzer writes: > Hey all. > > I have an interesting question for you: I want to run the WebMake CGI on > my virtual host server (my ISP's system). > > What do I need to do to get the CGI to be able to actually write files > out? > > I've always had trouble on my own computer with this, and have solved > the problem by using 777 permissions on that directory, but that's > because my web server's only running on my laptop when I need it to be > and it can be pretty secure as a result. > > Should I be running WebMake setuid as the webserver, or something like > that? Do I need to put it in a specific place? Hi Wes -- I generally make sure that the files and directories webmake will be writing to, are writable by the user it will run as, and that the files and dirs it's reading are readable by same. It doesn't really then matter who it runs as ;) If you edit all the stuff via the CGI, you can just make sure it's writable by *just* the CGI user. That's easy. Alternatively, if you want to be able to edit as yourself *and* the CGI user, then making them writable by both users is a better idea; I've made a WM site writable by several users in the past by making both users share a UNIX group, chgrp the existing files and dirs to be owned by that group, and set g+s permissions on the dirs so that new files/dirs use that group. A bit messy though. Another solution is the "suexec" wrapper that Apache uses, which ensures that CGIs run as your own userid. Most largeish virtual host providers use this, so that's most likely. - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQE/9j7TQTcbUG5Y7woRAq/ZAJ4klrf9RAV4iQyhqIU1ntSonO7LIQCeIx46 41ZzwoACNh/dujkHOkv0uhs= =tnrz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Webmake-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webmake.taint.org/mailman/listinfo/webmake-talk
