Sharing /usr/local/www

Kyrre Nygard kyrreny at broadpark.no
Sat May 27 02:12:28 PDT 2006


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



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