[Linux] Different dirs for different logins with apache?

[Michael Beal]

Yes, it is possible, Aaron.  Using mod_rewrite as Danny suggests won't
get it.  mod-rewrite doesn't work that way.  mod_rewrite, AFAIK, is a
URL scrubber.

1) Set up a session cookie which will authenticate the user and expires
after a preset amount of time.
2) Set up a MySQL DB that handles logins and "home" folders.
3) Do some PHP script to determine who gets to see what.
4) Add an .htaccess file to each directory that restricts access to
anyone other than the sysadmin(root) and webserver user(www or www-data
or www-html).  I know this seems odd but remember that only Apache is
going to be accessing the logged in user's folder so there's no issue
with locking yourself out.

As for the .htaccess file, you could get really tricky and force file
accesses to the logged in user.  Don't ask me how on that one though...
 No clue.

--- Aaron Wolfe <Aaron@kdtsolutions.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I am not sure if this is possible, but thought one of the experts
> here
> might point me in the right direction.
> 
> I would like to have a website that requires user authentication, and
> depending on the login supplied, serves up one of many different web
> roots.  In other words, if you login as Bob you see one website and
> if
> you login as Terry you see a completely different one, with no way to
> navigate between the two.
> 
>  
> 
> I could do this with a cgi that redirects based on the user, but I
> don't
> think it would be ideal or all that secure and I was hoping apache
> could
> be setup to do this automagically.  I haven't found much about this
> searching on the web, so any ideas are appreciated.
> 
>  
> 
> -Aaron
> 
>  
> 
> 



       
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