[CentOS] Running Apache sites as separate users
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Fri Sep 30 01:31:50 UTC 2011
On 09/29/11 6:22 PM, Trey Dockendorf wrote:
> I had a recent request to improve security on my web servers by having each
> website use a different user to run the hosting service. So
> example1.comhas it's own Apache instance running as apache1 and then
> example2.com has its own instance of Apache as apache2. Is this even
> possible or realistic? I understand the idea of how that would be secure,
> much like creating a virtual machine to segregate services. The only way I
> can think how this is done is to chroot each website. What makes this
> request even stranger is that each website will be managed by the same CMS
> and code base. So with that being the case, I don't see how this is
> possible. Any ideas or insight are very welcome.
afaik, its only possible to use multiple instances of apache if you have
multiple IP addresses, each one bound to a different address, or use
different ports for each site (which would require specifying the :port
as part of the URL)
I'd strongly question the rationale behind this request. sounds like
half-thinking to me.
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john r pierce N 37, W 122
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