Re: [gentoo-server] Apache2 Virtual Hosting

[Pedro Venda]

On Tuesday 28 February 2006 17:58, Pedro Venda wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 February 2006 16:14, Ryan James R. wrote:
> > I am trying to accomplish a mass virtual hosting server where each
> > website is run from it's own user account. Now I've accomplished
> > putting the websites into user's ~/public_html directories but Apache
> > is still running as it's own user so php file managers/admin backends
> > that are run from these sites.
> >
> > I took a look at mod_userdir but I'm not sure if that's what I was
> > wanting.
> >
> > From what I see, I think I need something that will allow apache to
> > spawn with userid of site it is serving. Please correct me if I'm
> > wrong and give as many suggestions as possible.
>
> there is more than one way to acomplish this, but none of them is perfect.
> generally you loose performance and may gain bonus security holes if you're
> not careful.
>
> * mod_suphp is the easiest and probably the best way to handle this. it
> allows selective php.ini configurations per vhost if you want and other
> nice restrictions. the online documentation is NOT up to date.

forgot to mention that mod_suphp is meant to be a php interpreter *only*.

>
> * mod_suexec is a more generic approach. However, when me and my team of
> sysadmins needed it, we found out that it didn't work exactly as we
> expected. we wanted it to serve .php files with the php cgi interpreter...
> if I remember correctly, mod_suexec needed the executable bit set on
> scripts and a .cgi extension, which would seriously break our installation.
> Miguel Filipe - a friend of mine - wrote a one-liner patch to make it work
> as we needed on a solaris apache2 installation we were administrating at
> the time (around 8000 users).. (http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~miguel/code/)
>
> Cheers,

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Pedro João Lopes Venda
email: pjvenda at pjvenda org
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