Fedora 17 with LAMP - Virtual Hosts with Home User Privileges HOWTO

[tntrush]

Hallo,

I just installed Fedora 17 and configured Apache MySql Php with Virtual Hosts using Home User Privileges in a Developper's environment and I would like to share it:

In Fedora 18, this setup is not working for the moment, since httpd-itk.2.4 has not yet been available through yum. (Check post#4 for a workaround solution)

1) Install LAMP

2) Configure Apache UserDir and setup selinux to allow users install a website on a directory they own.

3) Install httpd-itk to allow apache running a virtual host as owner's "user:group" :

yum install httpd-itk

Follow the instructions:

cat /usr/share/doc/*itk*/README.Fedora
It is only additional MPM for Apache web server.

To enable it:
1) If you are use moderm systemd:
systemctl stop httpd.service
systemctl disable httpd.service
systemctl enable httpd-itk.service
systemctl start httpd-itk.service

2) If you are still using old sysvinit style:
Set HTTPD=/usr/sbin/httpd.itk in /etc/sysconfig/httpd and restart daemon:
service httpd restart

For more information about Apache refer to man and manuals in main httpd package

4) Create Virtual Hosts

5) Enable apache to run as user:group

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerAdmin xxx
	DocumentRoot /xxx/xxx/xxx/
	ServerName test.loc
	ServerAlias test.loc *.test.loc
	ErrorLog xxx
	CustomLog xxx

	ErrorDocument 403 /403.html
	ErrorDocument 404 /404.html

	ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "xxx/cgi-bin/"
	<Directory "/xxx/cgi-bin/">
		AllowOverride None
		Options None
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
	</Directory>
AssignUserId user group
</VirtualHost>

* The above example was pasted from this post

6) Don't forget to update /etc/hosts :

cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1		localhost.localdomain localhost
::1		localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
127.0.0.1	test

And creat a separate virtual host for phpmyadmin:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /usr/share/phpMyAdmin
    ServerName phpmyadmin
 </VirtualHost>

7) Restart and enjoy:

systemctl start httpd-itk.service

Kind regards,
tntrush

[glennzo]

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[oliveryty]

thx for sharing

[tntrush]

Update:

After upgrading to Fedora 18, the issue that rises is that httpd-itk.2.4 has not yet been available through yum because it is not properly tested.

According to http://mpm-itk.sesse.net/:

There is also a 2.4.4-03 for Apache 2.4 and 2.5.x-pre, last updated 2012-12-31, but it's not as widely tested, so you should exercise some caution. You can download the archive here (the 2.4 series can be built out-of-tree in some cases, so you may no longer have to patch Apache).

Indeed, in fedora's prompt:

yum list installed | grep http
httpd.x86_64                     2.4.3-12.fc18      @fedora                     
httpd-itk.x86_64                 2.2.22-8.fc18      @fedora                     
httpd-manual.noarch              2.4.3-12.fc18      @fedora                     
httpd-tools.x86_64               2.4.3-12.fc18      @fedora

On the other hand, downgrading apache seems to be difficult, as the relevant post for an according compatibility issue in zend framework states clearly:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=288154#4

...I found it pretty difficult to downgrade to Apache 2.2. Installing it from another RPM breaks a bunch of dependencies.

My choice is to wait until httpd-itk.2.4 gets into yum since -for the time being- I am not entirely fond of tackling deeply with my system due to time constraints regarding my job. Actually, this is the reason why I migrated from gentoo to fedora ...

However, if a sound solution for fedora 18 is posted, I will surely follow!

In the meantime, I will arrange my server to run as a global preferred user, which is different than the default. Therefore, I will follow the instructions on arranging for the proper arrangements as stated in the following link:

http://ryanrhode.com/news/view/ryans...pache-as-a.htm

1. Change User and Group to your new user in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

2. Change the user and group on some things:

chown -R user:group /var/www
chown -R user:group /var/lib/php
chown -R user:group /var/log/httpd
chown -R user:group /var/lib/php/session

3. Restart Apache:
service httpd restart

Kind regards,
tntrush