Re: Apache and home directories (file browser).

From: Andy Dills (andy_at_xecu.net)
Date: 02/16/04

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    Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:31:13 -0500 (EST)
To: Lewis Thompson <purple@lewiz.net>

    On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Lewis Thompson wrote:

    > I think this is what I'm looking for, yes. Since I posted this I asked
    > some questions on IRC and somebody mentioned that Apache can be chrooted
    > to the uid of a script's owner (similar in a way to safe_mode in PHP).
    > This would surely then allow files to be read/written by Apache in a
    > secure fashion.
    >
    > My worry here is that Apache would have to be running as root to
    > chroot -- can anybody confirm this for me? (Indeed, can anybody confirm
    > that it is even possible to do this?)

    While you can chroot apache, that's serverwide, not per-virtualhost.

    If I were you and I wanted to do what you're talking about, I'd use suexec
    with perl scripts. AFAIK, that's the only way to do it correctly.

    Andy 

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