Hello,It seems quite common for organizations to offer Linux servers (often Debian) on which members can host their personal page (often mod_userdir). This approach can have some drawbacks such as running PHP as each user in a safe way is hard.
What do people here think of the following alternative:* We have a reverse proxy listening on 80 and 443, it reverses https://perso.example.com/USER/ to a socket in /home/USER/.page.socket * The user has the choice to use any web server they want on this socket. It can be uwsgi, Apache, Golang, NGINX... * We propose a way to start (and stop) the user-side server with a service manager looking for incoming requests on this socket.
This may sound complex, but would allow flexibility and simplicity for users. It does not work because I believe Apache cannot listen on an unix socket file.
Does anyone have better solutions or ideas to explore? -- Alexandre Volunteer in Crans student network organization (crans.org)
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