Hi, Read the Apache and PHP Documentation, if you have any questions after this. write again... Greets Carlos Am 22.08.2012 01:26, schrieb D. Dante Lorenso: > All, > > I need to set up a server to enable 5,000 students to have web hosting > provided by the school with PHP and MySQL support. I'm trying to figure > out what is the best way to do this. > > We have Active Directory and are using Centrify to authenticate > usernames and passwords on our Linux servers. I am imagining it would > be great if we use something like ExecCGI to ensure that PHP runs as the > user that owns the files. We would then provide FTP access to the files > and FTP would authenticate against Active Directory making sure to set > the proper user/group on files when uploaded. > > I see that PHP-FPM exists: http://php-fpm.org and it claims "Ability to > start workers with different uid/gid/chroot/environment and different > php.ini (replaces safe_mode)" which is exactly what I'm looking for. It > also claims "PHP-FPM is now included in PHP core as of PHP 5.3.3." so > that's good. > > I also read about the greatness that is NGinX: http://nginx.org though I > don't know if I can use it because I think I also need to use .htaccess > files. I need a way for students to be able to password protect their > directories and files. If there's another way using NGinX or Apache, > that's good too. I know of no other way. > > Here is an interesting article from 2009: > http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-set-up-mass-virtualhosting-with-apache2-mod_rewrite-mod_userdir-mod_suexec-on-centos-5.3 > > > That uses mod_rewrite to attempt something like what I'm trying to do > ... and then, Apache has mod_vhost_alias: > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_vhost_alias.html > > So, I see a lot of information out there. Apache, NginX, ExecCGI, > FastCGI, mod_vhost_alias, mod_rewrite, SuExec, mod_userdir. I suspect > some of these methods are old and out of date. > > In my ideal situation: > > - users would be created in AD and would exist on the OS > > - student domain names would look like: > http://<username>.student.school.edu/ - OR - > http://student.school.edu/<username>/ > > - file directories would look like: > /mnt/somedir/<username>/docroot > > - students would be able to create PHP applications executed with > their own permissions > > - I would be able to configure all 5,000 accounts with a single > configuration (1 virtual host rule?) > > Do you know what the "best practices" are for now ... here in 2012? > > -- Dante > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
