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Syphor · Jul 21, 2003, 02:49 AM

Hey all,
I'm using apache 2.0.46 and I was wondering if there is a way to specify the DocumentRoot to change for different users..

EG.
www (default) - /Users/syphor/Sites
syphor (admin) - /
mac-boy (user) - /Users/mac-boy/Sites

Wevah · Jul 21, 2003, 12:23 PM

That wouldn't really make much sense, since DocumentRoot specifies the root directory when actually viewing the Web site...and since httpd only runs as one user (and since there is no way to specify what UNIX user a given HTTP session has in this way), there wouldn't be any reason to do this in the first place.

Of course, perhaps I don't understand what you're trying to do...

Camelot · Jul 21, 2003, 03:11 PM

Originally posted by Syphor:
Hey all,
I'm using apache 2.0.46 and I was wondering if there is a way to specify the DocumentRoot to change for different users..

EG.
www (default) - /Users/syphor/Sites
syphor (admin) - /
mac-boy (user) - /Users/mac-boy/Sites

Unless you mean virtual hosts, so that www.yourdomain.com serves content out of /Users/syphor/Sites, 'syphor.yourdomain.com' serves content out of / (DO NOT do this!), and mac-boy.yourdomain.com serves content out /Users/mac-boy/Sites

If so, that's easy, and is well documented in the apache docs at http://localhost/manual/vhosts/index.html

Wevah · Jul 22, 2003, 12:34 PM

What Camelot said, also.

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