I don't know if this will help, but I always point the vhost root dir to public_html directory in the user's directory. That way the perms are there. In other words, say I'm hosting for a company called foo.com. I create a master user like foo. A /home/foo directory gets created and I create a /home/foo/public_html directory with proper perms. Now my client can use his foo account to dump in his website. I tell Apache that www.foo.com is served at /home/foo/public_html. This may not be very elaborate, but it works and satisfies permissions problems, generally. <<JAV>> ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Craig Daters <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:09:21 -0700 Subject: Apache Virtual Host > I have scoured the web for information on setting up the virtual > host part of Apache, and I have found lots of info, but nothing that > shows me a clear cut example of what I am after. I am hoping that > someone here may be able to help me. I am also posting this question > to the User Support and Discussion list at Apache.org. We'll see > what turns up. > > I have a stock RH9 install setup for our web server, and have added > PHP and MySQL as well. DNS services are all properly set up as well. > For the purpose of keeping a similar setup to how we had our website > setup where we were hosting previously, I created a user called > 'westpress' to use for our main website as opposed to using the > default 'apache' user with RedHat's default config. > > User 'westpress' has it's own directory in the /home directory. > (Incidently, I will be setting up three other websites for employees > and want them all to be managed by the same Apache server.) So I > will not be using the RH configured DocRoot path of '/var/www/html'. > Instead, I will be setting up /home/*/public_html paths for everything > > Initially on my RHL machine, Apache was configured to run as 'user apache' > and 'group apache'. I set up virtual host containers for 'westpress', > 'jsdzyn' and 'teamtrailer'. I then restarted apache, and upon > pointing my browser to www.westpress.com, or www.jsdzyn.com > etc...get error messages. Now I understand why this is happening- > -the whole user and group permissions thing. The many examples I > have consulted (mainly apache.org and my trusty O'Reilly Apache book) > that show how to use the virtual host containers all seem to be > using the same user/group declaration in the conf file. So there is > never an issue like the one I encounter. I even tried to insert > user/group directives into the virtual host containers when I tried > this a year ago but that did not work then, I haven't tried it now > thinking that I would get the same results. > > I want all three of these accounts to remain separate from each > other with their own working web server. The conf file refers to > running apache as 'root' and that it will switch to the appropriate > user when the page is called. So, I changed the user/group option to > be root, and when I restarted apache all kinds of red flags went up! > So I settled for changing the user/group option to 'westpress', put > all of the 'westpress.com' settings into the main server config area, > and for now 'jsdzyn.com' and 'teamtrailer.com' remains broken. > > I recall trying to get this working almost a year ago or so, and > seemed to be getting somewhere, but had to abandon it due to the > fact that I could not get cgi scripts to work. Some kind of error > that pointed to suexec or something like that. > > I guess I'm wondering how ISP's are able to provide these services. > I'm sure that they aren't running thousands of different webservers > to accomplish this. I just want to run a similar set up so that I > can keep all three sites running but separate. > > When I tried this a year ago, I was running RH7.3 with their apache- > 1.3.27-2 rpm. > > Now, I am using RH9 with their httpd-2.0.40-21.5 rpm of apache installed. > > And I know that the virtual host container configs work, because > when I changed the user/group option to that specific user, there > site would come up when called. > > Can anyone point me in the right direction? > > Craig D. > > -- > > Craig Daters (craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) > Systems Administrator > West Press Printing & Copying > 1663 West Grant Road > Tucson, Arizona 85745-1433 > USA > > Tel: 520-624-4939 > Fax: 520-624-2715 > > www.westpress.com > > -- > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ------- End of Original Message ------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
