Sharing /usr/local/www

[Daniel A.]

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
> 
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Hi Kyrre.

Have you tried chmodding the www dir to be group-writable?

Also, as someone else has suggested, SVN og CVS might be a good idea. 
They would not solve the problem you have right now, but they might help 
you avoid some possible problems with many people editing the same batch 
of files - sharing violations. What if two people start editing the same 
files on their own workstations, and both upload the changes? What about 
version control? et cetera, ad nauseam.

Offcourse, non-repository development is possible, and I've done it 
myself without any issues whatsoever, but you're the one who decides 
what's best for your development.