A few days ago, I finished the general idea of the new-style webhosting platform. Turned out to be easy, once I got the hang of it. (And of course, after some useful hints from a friend. Said friend has built a custom apache module, for handling PHP / CGI as a ‘normal’ user, accompanied with a little kernel-module.

The result is quite nice:
– Apache 2.0.54
– PHP 5.0.4
– mod_tsunami

.. and everything running as a numeric uid, no entries in the passwd file, all homedirs can be 0700. And, together with my own little tool that generates apache-configs from LDAP, I think it’s a pretty nice, stable, and easy to maintain setup.

Let’s see how things go, when I try reinstalling one of the shared hosting servers somewhere next week :)

Sten’s Apache page