Apache User/Group and permissions

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Some open source apps tell you to enter the user you use to run that particular app in the httpd.conf as the Apache user. But what do you do when you want to run multiple apps like that and you can’t easily run them under the same user? In other words, suppose you have userA, userB, and userC that all create and update files regularly in the Apache document root. If you run Apache as userA, when you try to view web pages created by userB and userC you get permissions errors in your browser. I’ve tried creating a group in NetInfo manager and running Apache as that group, but I still have the same problem. I wonder if Tiger’s ACL’s might help but I’m not sure.

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