Sharing /usr/local/www

[Beech Rintoul]

On Saturday 27 May 2006 01:12, Kyrre Nygard wrote:
> At 10:45 27.05.2006, Beech Rintoul wrote:
> >On Saturday 27 May 2006 00:32, Kyrre Nygard wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > I have a team of designers working on web 2.0 like sites.
> > >
> > > I have added them all to this box, now I'm wondering what's the most
> > > convenient way of giving them all access to /usr/local/www?
> > >
> > > My temporary solution has been to add all users with UID and GID 80,
> > > and then ln -s /usr/local/www ~/collabo for each user.
> > >
> > > If users have their original UID instead of www's then somehow they
> > > can't read or write to /usr/local/www. I thought sharing the same GID
> > > was sufficient, but obviously it isn't. I find this very strange.
> > >
> > > Some of them prefer just using FTP, so then being able to click on
> > > collabo@ and go straight to /usr/local/www is very convenient for them.
> > >
> > > But is there a better way?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Kyrre
> >
> >CVS is your friend. But there are also a ton of php scripts out there to
> > do what you want.
> >
> >Beech
> >--
>
> Yeah I hear a lot of people like CVS.
>
> But I fail to realize how it might assist me though.
>
> I'm not setting up a code repository, this is an actual WWW root
> where a lot of different websites are hosted.
>
> Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> And what PHP scripts are you talking about?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Kyrre
>
Take a look at http://www.hotscripts.com there is a lot of stuff in there for 
dealing with multiple users (some commercial, some not). Ultimately if you're 
doing that level of hosting you'll probably want something like cpanel, but 
cpanel itself is very pricey. 

Beech

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