webmasteroy Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 Hello, I am a fast learning linux noobie, I just setup a Ubuntu Server edition on an old PC on my LAN I got everything working (I.E. Apache2, PHP5, Perl, MySQL, ftp, Outgoing mailserver etc....) that mail server was a real b*tch I had to set it up to use gmail as a smart host. So my current server configuration handles multiple users with symbolic links. /var/www/user-administrator --> /home/administrator/www /var/www/user-brandon --> /home/brandon/www /var/www/user-neil --> /home/neil/www I was looking up on vhost for this exact problem I am having, and I see what I have done isn't exactly how most people would have done it so I will probably fix up that structuring using vhosts later. So what I am trying to do: I am want to run a second installation of Apache as the root user. Now before you scream at me about that not being safe let me explain! I plan on creating a Control Panel similar to Webmin or cPanel or Direct Admin. But this would use php as its engine. Now you can't execute certain commands like shell_exec("useradd -u....."); because Apache doesn't run as the root user and only root permissions can execute functions like that. This is why I would like to install a separate installation of Apache on a port other than that of 80 maybe 5555 or something not used by other software that I might be using. Please let me know if this is possible, I have searched the web for a while trying to find anything on this and I can't, so maybe I am going about this wrong. As I said I am a newbie to this linux so maybe software like Webmin and cPanel do this totally different to my knowledge they use Shell Scripts or Perl or Python and I know Python and Shell Scripts can easily be run as a root user. But I would like to have these functions be executed via php's shell_exec(); or exec(); commands. Kind Regards, Aaron Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/127873-multiple-apache-instances-for-control-panel/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Errrr, open httpd.conf and change Listen 80. Then just make sure you're root when starting Apache. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/127873-multiple-apache-instances-for-control-panel/#findComment-663165 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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