On 6/22/06, Florian Lindner <mailinglists@xxxxxx> wrote:
That is not an explanation. Since the apache process is lunched as root (so it can bind port 80 e.g.) it can fork different processes and change the uid/gid of these processes.
Although it is theoretically possible to keep a pool of processes under multiple userids, it is not at all simple. Complications include managing multiple pools of processes, and efficiently passing requests between processes (since with name-based vhosts there is no way to make sure that a process with the right uid will answer requests for a particular host). Attempts at solving this problem have included the perchild and metux mpms. Both projects are dead at the moment, as far as I know. As has been mentioned, you can certainly do this with apache just by having multiple apache daemons listening on high-numbered ports and using one daemon with proxypass to forward requests to the appropriate port. But the configuration can get a little complicated. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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