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Title: Allowing Different Users Access to the Primary Web Site Fold
Post by: Bob on April 15, 2002, 03:17:32 AM

I work for a School Division and a few of the schools would like to host their own web site.  Running SME v5.1.2 at all sites.  The problem is I don't want to give out the Admin password to allow them to upload content to the Primary web site folder.

Is there a way around having to hand out the Admin password to the teachers?  Can I create a user that will have read/write access to that folder?

Any ideas?????

Title: Re: Allowing Different Users Access to the Primary Web Site
Post by: Steve on April 15, 2002, 09:21:04 AM

You could edit the apache config. file  (httpd.conf, I think?), but you must use e-smith's custom template method or e-smith will overwrite the file.  You could change the root directory of the webserver from "/home/e-smith/files/primary/html" to "/home/e-smith/files/ibays//html".  This would require the creation of ibay "webmaster" in which you would make the webmasters members of and allow write access only by that group.  (However, there may be a better solution)

Please add to this if someone knows more about creating the custom-template!

Good luck!