No not part Apache, you could divide your vhosts into their own Apache web servers. If you're using Solaris, Solaris 10's new feature is zones, which you can configure into virtual servers (so one zone for each vhost). Or if you have WIN server and Virtual Machine, you could do something similar. -----Original Message----- From: Rainer Sokoll [mailto:R.Sokoll@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 3:57 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Different users for different vhosts On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 10:26:45PM +0200, Florian Lindner wrote: > Hello, > is it possible to assign each vhost a own process (or a process pool) > with a distinct user? So that a apache process can not abused (with > PHP for example) for accessing other users data? I don't think so. > If not, why not? ------8<------ ~ >man fork [...] NAME fork, fork1, forkall - create a new process [...] DESCRIPTION The fork(), fork1(), and forkall() functions create a new process. The address space of the new process (child pro- cess) is an exact copy of the address space of the calling process (parent process). The child process inherits the following attributes from the parent process: o real user ID, real group ID, effective user ID, effec- tive group ID ------8<------ Rainer --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx