fastCGI

Rafnews raf.news at gmail.com
Fri Jun 14 11:21:04 UTC 2013


On 14.06.2013 13:18, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 14.06.2013 12:35, schrieb Rafnews:
>> however using my standard fedora user account, Ii still can not edit/remove/move
>> files/folders owned by apache user account. while searching on internet i discovered
>> that fastCGI should allow me (using my fedora user account) to do such thing, even
>> if files/folders are owned by apache user account
> this has *nothing* to with mod_php oder fastcgi
> the permissions are how they are
>
> * man setfacl
> * man chown
> * man chgrp
> * man chmod
>
> and by the way - the apache user should *not* own the files because
> typically a webserver should not be able to rewrite his content
> files in case of a security breach
>

2 of our webserver hosting companies told us that if we want to have 
files own by some other user account than apache, it is needed to have 
fastCGI..if not, than we need suPHP or suExec.

However it has been told that FastCGI provide also a performance 
increase so, we would like to reach it also :)


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