I am running Apache using the service account httpd. (Linux box)

I made a user proj1 and created the virtual directory myproj. I then chowned that directory with:

chown -R proj1roj1 myproj

I login as proj1 using ftp and can create directories and php code. The problem I can't figure out is how to tell Apache & PHP that it is ok for it to create/write to the directories of proj1 (E.g mkdir() ).

I would prefer that all directories be created with 755. Is there a way to add proj1 to be an additional service account to the virtual directory?

P.S. PHP safe mode is off and have root access to this server

Hi,

There is apache2-mpm-itk

Or you can use suphp, that is used to run php scripts with the rights of a specific user/group.

Regards

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Yep, was trying to avoid installing this stuff on a live server. For now I found a solution for what I need it. I created a user with the same uid,gid as httpd (allow duplicate ids options). This way at least I can login with sftp as a normal user. Works great.