Greetingz!
Although that wouldn't be "bad" per se, as UNIX can be quite flexible, there's a few things you'll want to keep in mind;
1) In order to run a webserver on a port under 1024, the user in question is going to need some extra rights.
Typically this is handled by a startup script (in
/etc/init.d or
/etc/rc.d), which calls
httpd as root, then spawns child-processes using a different account. This is called "Privledge separation".
Example:
Code:
luser@lhost$ ps -ef | grep httpd
apache 16333 31600 0 Jan26 ? 00:00:22 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 16334 31600 0 Jan26 ? 00:00:21 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 16458 31600 0 Jan26 ? 00:00:19 /usr/sbin/httpd
root 31600 1 0 Jan20 ? 00:00:01 /usr/sbin/httpd
luser@lhost$
2) Most SysAdmin's (that I know) would cut a small filesystem for their new application. This keeps it separated, and has the benefit of stopping an application from "flooding" a critical filesystem (some would argue whether or not
/home is critical...).
3) If this is going to be any type of "standard" for your systems (rather than just a one-shot experiment), then you may want to avoid just dropping things into a user's home directory.
installing apache in ~ of a normal user
