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How to setup User and Password for Git server?

What are the best practices for web server setup?

  • I am curious about best possible web server setup. We have to host Python and PHP web applications. 1. Under what user these apps should be running? 2. If we incorporate version control like pushing changes to git, should we have a separate user? Please outline how you would go about setting up a blank server with respect to users and directories if you are to host Python/Ruby apps.

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    If you're running Apache, I strongly recommend using something like the MPM-ITK module to let you run different sites as different users. It allows the best of both worlds: you can allow your users to run websites and upload files via FTP/Git, while still ensuring that no site is able to access files for any other site. If you're setting up web hosting for third parties who want to be able to control their own sites and not make changes through you, and you're unfamiliar with setting up a shared hosting environment, you may want to consider paying for a cPanel/WHM license. It's really easy to shoot yourself in the foot when it comes to hosting security, even if you've been doing it for years. Using cPanel puts a safety on the trigger, so to speak.

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Here is a quick tip: Don't use the root user, create a separate user for your apps/websites Use the same user to push to your git repository. In some cases your web server user (i.e: apache/nginx user)  might conflict with the user you created (i.e: one requires write permissions on a file owned by the other) in this case you can add both users to the same group and give proper permissions like 775

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