[CentOS] Running Apache sites as separate users
Jerry McAllister
jerrymc at msu.edu
Fri Sep 30 14:15:37 UTC 2011
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 08:22:59PM -0500, 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.
Used to do that a lot on FreeBSD. It was just a virtual host.
We used separate IPs for each virtual host, but there are ways
to do it with name based virtual hosts. I think name based VH
didn't work with https though.
I don't know if CentOS can do it though.
////jerry
>
> Thanks
> - Trey
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