Hello everyone.
I understand that YaSt has controls
for installing, starting, stoping and
access control across the wire for software
like apache2 & what not.
got that all down.
What I need to know is.
when using home folders does
SUSE allow me the same functioning
as the root of the web server ?
I would like to run wordpress
and oScommerce under the users folder.
By the way, thank you to who ever
for your such hard work on OpenSUSE!
I love it
Not sure what you are asking for but I don’t think it’s a chroot of php5 and mysql5. You can run PHP apps from anywhere, just put them in the directory and then create an alias for it, then put protections for the directory in question. For an example, this is what Debian does for phpMyAdmin:
Alias /php-myadmin/ /usr/share/phpmyadmin/
<Directory /usr/share/phpmyadmin/>
...
</Directory>
This config snippet can go into /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf for example.
Make sure that any directories that apache needs to write in have are owned or group owned by apache.
As an aside, I usually change that php-myadmin to something less obvious like p.h.p.my.admin becase there are too many web worms trying the obvious names for a phpMyAdmin installation and taking advantage of security holes in old versions. Naturally you should keep phyMyAdmin up to date as a primary measure, but a little more difficulty for the attacker doesn’t hurt.
No, you shouldn’t expose phpMyAdmin to the world, but sometimes internal machines also get infected with worms.