Hi,

I have inherited a web server that is configured to provide a number of websites to our customers.
The server is RHEL 5 2.6.18-128.7.1.e15

The websites are initially served by Apache, but run on JBOSS this looks to be achived by some sort of internal redirect.

The issue is that as far as I can tell there is only a single JBOSS process runnning all the websites, about 10, and I need to give our web developers access to just two of them, an internet test site and the live website for the company, they will need to upload a number of files and make some database changes, and potentially much more in the future.

Anyt suggestions on how this can be achieved, I'm not a unix person yet but need to be able to understand the environment.

Cheers

Welcome to LQ!
There are a couple of ways how to deploy applications on JBoss. Here you can get an impress:
http://community.jboss.org/wiki/JBossAdminGuide

Usually you don't exchange "a couple of html files" in applications running on JBoss or other application containers. You deploy them by placing a new application archive (.war, .ear
,...) and tell the server admin tool to deploy it. So maybe your customers simply have to give you a new .war-file that you deploy on the test site and if test is positive you shift it to the live version?

The database is a different topic. What database server is used? For MySQL i. E. there is a web admin tool call phpMyAdmin. You can use that for free and grant different users appropiate access.
www.phpmyadmin.net
For PostGresql
http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net