Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Posts: 16777215 Location: Umm.. I dont know.. somewhere
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2002 3:46 am Post subject: Apache + NFS
I was wondering if any has any experience with nfs and apache. What I'm thinking of doing is exporting my users home dirs to another box over NFS so that they can have personal homepages on my server. My web server is on a different box and from my shells.
Any one have any sugestions with reguard to security as well as performance of the home pages for my users?
Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 16777215 Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2002 11:22 am Post subject:
I've not tried this before, but what I have seen done is using SAMBA to make symbolic links to their home directories, this can be done on a windows machine aswell using mount -smbfs or smbmount.
This means you only have the homes in one place, on a windows or *nix machine.
With regards to security, just be careful with your permissions. make sure each user can only access their home drive.
It can be done with Apache. You would need to be very careful opening connections between remote computers as it can be exploited and open the Network to all sort of problems.
I find the most secure way is to cocoon Apache in its own folder.
If It was me, I would install another Apache on the other computer and treat it simply as another server. Easy to set up and with its own settings, more secure.
Joined: 27 May 2002 Posts: 16777215 Location: U.S.A.
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2002 10:05 pm Post subject:
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I was wondering if any has any experience with nfs and apache. What I'm thinking of doing is exporting my users home dirs to another box over NFS so that they can have personal homepages on my server. My web server is on a different box and from my shells.
Any one have any sugestions with reguard to security as well as performance of the home pages for my users?
Just a idea, is to leave the users where they are and setup apache on the same machine but have the home dir's on another machine/share
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