Re: enabling suexec with debian apache [solved]
> It is automatic with suexec. Only you have to enable suexec by setting
> suexec setuid.
hrm, i thought i tried that and it didn't work. regardless, if you know how
then that's the main thing :)
> Unfortunately with apache, data is always served as www-data.www-data or
> whatever it is set to in httpd.conf. It does not change uids to serve
> normal files, since that would need running as root. It does that for
> cgi-s since that inherently needs a program execution itself...
hrm, that probably makes sense.
> No. I would add www-data to the user's group. That way it can see the
> user's file, and it need not be world-readable. However it did not work.
> But maybe only because I did not restart apache, and it did not have the
> user's group among its groups.
yes, you would probably need to restart apache for the new group ownership
to take effect.
adam.
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