I am a relatively new user to the Linux environment and I have questions. Questions that haven't been answered clearly elsewhere on the net. Can anybody help me?

I need to know exactly what (in stupid people's language) I need to do to use chroot on my server. I am virtually hosting a couple of sites, and currently the users associated with the sites can see the entire tree structure. Of course, to make it more difficult, I allow them to use php4 and mySQL.

What steps (EXACTLY - hopefully with examples) do I need to take to instantiate chroot and keep the little buggers from browsing all of my structure?

I am sorry to have to sound like an idiot, but my frustration is driving me insane.

~Dan
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Could you tell us what you mean by "currently the users associated with the sites can see the entire tree structure"? Filesystem? DocumentRoot? Vhost DocumentRoot?

Here's some info on chrooting:
An Overview of 'chroot jailing' Services in Linux, How to 'chroot' an Apache tree with Linux and Solaris, How can I run Apache and PHP in a chroot environment?, and something more to think about: Why chroot Sucks (txt, 5th item).
* For making chroot's I use rootjail (see freshmeat), it makes setting up the base skeleton a lot easier to tweak.

HTH somehow.