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John R.
Asked: 2010-12-05 22:35:59 +0800 CST

How to run Apache as another user? (as 'www', or 'apache') on my

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I just recently deployed a LAMP stack that came as a package for Linode (a VPS host), I can successfully run Apache 2 but the process and all my files within are owned by root. On my shared web host I could run as nobody or similar to help restrict access, how can I do this myself on my VPS?

I think the steps would be:
- Create user apache2
- Write in httpd.conf to use apache2?
- recursively chown all my files to apache2.

I simply can not find a solution except to use another package and have it installed like that, I would really enjoy some guidence on this. Thank you.

apache-2.2 security httpd.conf user-accounts

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  1. Best Answer

    The User directive sets the user httpd runs as, if for some reason the distro doesn't set it in its package.

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