Apache – making a group for it
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By default, Apache runs as
user nobody in group nobody. That’s not good. So I’m creating a new
user and a new group. The group can be added by modifying /etc/group.
For more information on this file, try man group.
I created a new user by running adduser. This user doesn’t need a
shell nor does it need a home directory.
To restart httpd, I did a kill -1. It didn’t restart.
The log (/var/log/httpd-error.log) shows it attempted to restart. So I
restart httpd manually by going to /usr/local/sbin and typing ./httpd.
It complained about a virtual host in /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf.
So I comment out that reference and try to restart httpd.. Now it
runs. I notice one instance as root and five as the user I just created.
According to my sources, that is normal.
I confess that when I set up this new user, I did give it a shell. And a home
directory. I’ll have to remove that eventually.