[CentOS] Apache: User and Group

Wed Jan 30 19:50:24 UTC 2008
Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com>

On Tuesday, January 29, 2008 11:51 AM -0500 Brian Mathis 
<brian.mathis at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are some cases when you might want apache to be able to write to
> files, but those are less frequent, so you should only change those
> specific files to apache ownership, or change the group permissions to
> allow writing from the group, and add apache to that group.

It would be nice if the initscript supported running multiple instances of 
Apache as different users. (See the VNC service for a case where this is 
done.) For example, a default installation for general web use, and another 
installation for BackupPC running as backuppc.backuppc. Or another 
installation running as user asterisk to run one's PBX.