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One Admin for Multiple Virtual Sites
- Thread starter MeNotYou
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Ok first I'll asume you'r on *nix/Linux? and if so I would suggest that you are a little confused as to who can do what.
On *nix root starts Apache (httpd) and then hands over control to whatever user is specified in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, "normal" users (joe Bloggs) can write to their own home directory and (if configured) apache serves up their webpages.
Now you can add a package (SUDO) that will let root configure a file (sudoers) and allow specified users to do root'y things, just Google for SUDO.
With SUDO you could setup an admin user (lets say web-admin)that has chmod, chown, etc on the / and maybe another user big-admin who can do "some" of the tasks that would otherwise be a pain for root to have to keep doing like adding virtual hosts into teh httpd.conf and restarting apache.
I hope this helps.
Laurie.
On *nix root starts Apache (httpd) and then hands over control to whatever user is specified in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, "normal" users (joe Bloggs) can write to their own home directory and (if configured) apache serves up their webpages.
Now you can add a package (SUDO) that will let root configure a file (sudoers) and allow specified users to do root'y things, just Google for SUDO.
With SUDO you could setup an admin user (lets say web-admin)that has chmod, chown, etc on the / and maybe another user big-admin who can do "some" of the tasks that would otherwise be a pain for root to have to keep doing like adding virtual hosts into teh httpd.conf and restarting apache.
I hope this helps.
Laurie.
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