Aaron Gaudio wrote:
That's reverse. At least, in my mind it is. Why would I want the webserver mount the user dirs? I want the user files, and anything web related to be on a completely different, physical machine. So, in essence:But why can't your web server nfs mount the user home dirs (or a portion thereof, if you don't want to give the webserver nfs access to their non-web dirs)? Using autofs (maybe with a custom autofs script) could help facilitate that.
user shell server web server
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john_doe /home/john_doe
/home/john_doe/www ---> /www/john_doe
billybob /home/billybob
/home/billybob/www ---> /www/billybob
etc.When user john_doe logs into the shell server (the only machine anyone has access to), I need some way for their www directory to also be accessible to them, so they can create/edit/maintain their own stuff. And it has to be live so they can see their changes right away. Also, they don't always use their shell to maintain their site. They use a range of software to work on their sites. FrontPage, Dreamweaver, GoLive, and BBedit are just a few of the applications they use to ftp in to their account to make changes to their site. I need some way for their www stuff to always be live and accessible, not only when they use a shell log in.
See, I did this with /var/mail (or /var/spool/mail) already. Since all user INBOXes sit in the same location, ti was easy to move that to a separate spool server, and just mount the partition on the shell server. Problem solved. But now, I'm dealing with hundreds of user folders, since each person has their own web space.
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