I have a web server i'm assisting a friend with...
It's a cent OS? box. (i'm a windows guy, sorry)

It's been years... ( i last logged in in 2004 here ) since i've used linux...

It's slowly coming back however...

i do have access via webmin. and it's a virtual server, so i have root / ssh

I need to host 3 - 4 sites, nothing professional, mostly just stuff for friends.

I need to know the proper way to work with the users... meaning... when i create virtual servers (in apache using webmin) it's asking for the directory - /var/www/html/sitename being the example i found on google...

how do i create users so they can map their directory and manage their own stuff... so the securities on the directory are set correctly for hosting... so apache can read etc... do i create a user called site1, and create a /var/www/html/site1 and give this user access to this directory?
I need several directories
/var/www/html/site1
/var/www/html/site2
etc


I'm more confused as to the proper way to do this vs how to do it...

thanks guy's

Not sure how to do it via Webmin, but it's really not hard doing it by editing the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file.

If you use VirtualHosts, then yes, you can grant ownership to the specific user/group so that they can modify their webpage.

One option would be to enable Home Directories. You can enable home directories and change the paths. Just make sure that each user owns that directory. By default, once you enable the user home directory, it will be in /home/username/public_html. People can then access the site by using the username. For example, http://mysite1.com/~joeblow

Yes, you can give permissions to the folder to the specific user and/or group to access the site. Or you can use the AuthType Basic directive to enable users/groups to login to access the site by granting them a password. YOu can also allow/deny from specific networks.

OK..
So here's what i did...

i created users in webmin
user1 home dir /var/www/html/site1
user2 home dir /var/www/html/site2
user3 home dir /var/www/html/site3

in apache i created 3 virtual sites

site1 - html doc dir /var/www/html/site1/www
site2 - html doc dir /var/www/html/site2/www
site3 - html doc dir /var/www/html/site3/www

i checked the permissions and it seems that user 1 has permissions on it's home dir, and apache has permissions ponly on the /site1/www part

This seems correct to me...

Is this correct?

when I meant permissions, I meant changing it on the filesystem.
For example: