vhost (+php) with diffrent users
Added by icewinder over 15 years ago
Hi
Im trying Lighttpd 1.5 and it is one thing i cant really grasp, reading all the information in the wiki.
in theory if you want to run multiple/virtual host in lighttpd 1.5 including an programming laungage (in my case PHP).
I would in all cases want to run each virtual host under a unique user, ensuring myself that each user only would be able to read/run his own .php files, and only have write access to his own file. how are you gonna be able to do this?
In Lighttpd 1.4 (with fastcgi) )I achieve this by changing the server.username and server.groupname under each virtual host. but in 1.5 it seames to be a bit more complicated, since you have to set username och group on the spawn-fcgi application directly I'm guessing the php script are executed by this particurley user who are running spawn-fcgi every time, and thats why my old solution dont work anymore.
i see one other solution and that is to run one spawn-fcgi for each virtual host, but that would leave a lot of creapy php proccesses on the webserver
Am i struggling with this problem the wrong way, missing the obvious? how do you set up at vhost with php under diffrent users? you cant be all running them under the same user, do you?
cheers
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RE: vhost (+php) with diffrent users - Added by icy over 15 years ago
icewinder wrote:
In Lighttpd 1.4 (with fastcgi) )I achieve this by changing the server.username and server.groupname under each virtual host. but in 1.5 it seames to be a bit more complicated, since you have to set username och group on the spawn-fcgi application directly I'm guessing the php script are executed by this particurley user who are running spawn-fcgi every time, and thats why my old solution dont work anymore.
This is wrong, the server.username/groupname setting is not for usage with vhosts. Lighttpd uses one process and the settings named here are for setting the user/group this one process runs as. It can't change the user per request. Apache can do that, not lighty.
If you want to run the php scripts as different users, then you have to either use a wrapper script in 1.4 for launching or launch them with spawn-fcgi and set the user there. The latter method will work in 1.4 and 1.5.
It is all documented in the wiki...
And yes, without adaptive spawning, you will have processes hanging around.