Re: [cpx] Pre-install questions

[Jerry Gapinski - Acuity Creative <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, I'll look into iManager.


> From: Scott Wiersdorf <scottw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: <cpx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:46:57 -0700
> To: "cpx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <cpx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [cpx] Pre-install questions
> 
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 10:09:23PM -0600, Jerry Gapinski - Acuity Creative
> wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> We have our server setup different than a default VPS2.
>> 
>> Will these cause any problems, I don?t mind not using CPX to set-up
>> subhosts:
>> * all web sites are in /www/htdocs/SUBHOST-DOMAIN.NAME, instead of
>> home/USERNAME/www/SUBHOST-DOMAIN.NAME
> 
> I don't think CPX will be the right tool for you, if your web
> directories are not located under the user that administers the
> domain. That's a significant philosophical difference that can't be
> easily reconciled.
> 
> CPX groups all domains for a domain administator under that user's
> account; this setup provides increased security and convenience in the
> following ways:
> 
> - keeps the domain quotas under the quota of the admin
> - allows for a single login to access all document roots
> - allows CGI scripts to run as the domain admin, allowing him to write
>   to DB files, etc. without elevating the permissions of Apache, or
>   softening the directory ownership or directory permissions.
> 
> Without conforming to the VPS v2 vaddhost/cpx philosophy, it will be
> very hard to use those tools to administer your VPS v2 account.
> 
> Scott
> -- 
> Scott Wiersdorf
> scottw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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