On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 12:58, Mike Zelina wrote:
I couldn't find any documentation on how a host *could* provide mod_perl and do it in a way that would be safe for his server and usable for a client.
I was just talking about this with my co-workers. Here's one way:
Set up a front-end apache with mod_proxy. Have it proxy all requests for /~user (or whatever) to an unprivileged port assigned to that user (or a name-based virtual host). Give each user their own mod_perl on that port/host that they can do what they want with, since it runs as an unprivileged user (themselves).
You still have a problem to limit available resources. On some platforms BSD::Resource/Apache::Resource can solve this as John has suggested.
However, it's quite possible that this is more trouble and less value than the virtual server setups people are selling these days.
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