Hi everyone.
I'm planning on hosting a main website for my school (Wordpress) and a few websites (< 10) for some teachers (Wordpress, Moodle, Joomla). Someone of the teachers needs to access his/her folder via ftp to upload documents, images,...
I'am using apache 2 on ubuntu server 10.04 LTS, 4GB RAM, 2 x 500GB Hard disk (RAID hardware).The server is connected directly to the router DMZ (netgear dgn 2000).

The questions are:
1)If I store the teachers' websites in public_html, should I create as many user as the teachers? And how to set permissions? And where to put the main site and moodle?
2)What are your recommendations about security?

I would suggest you create normal users for each person who will use ftp.
Then use apache virtual sites to locate each separate web site in each users own home directory.
so you would have a structure in each users home similar to
/home/<user>/www/html/

where /home/<user>/www is the site root and /home/<user>/www/html/ is the document root for each site.

You can leave the main public_html for the main default web site.
You can then restrict the users to their home directories in ftp to prevent them "walking" the directory tree.

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Thank you. I will try what you suggest.

do you have a proper procedure how to install the moodle? since I am very prostrated about it.. I research some link which has a guide but when I tried to follow the commands there are lot of bunch of error appears. thanks