[Moin-user] problem installing moin as standalone on gentoo

dave s moin at pusspaws.net
Mon Oct 17 10:49:54 EDT 2005


Nir Soffer wrote:

>
> On 16 Oct, 2005, at 19:11, dave s wrote:
>
>> chown: `www-data.www-data' syntax is obsolete; use `:' since this 
>> will be removed in the future
>> chown: `www-data.www-data': invalid user
>> dave_comp moin #
>
>
> www-data is correct for Debian, it may be another name for your 
> system. You can check the correct user name in Apache configuration 
> file, usually at /etc/httpd/httpd.conf. Search for "user" and "group".
>
>> PS I am using the package from the moin website because all I want is 
>> a standalone server, I am not confident in setting up apache securely :)
>
>
> In this case there is no reason to use the Apache user and group 
> names. You can use any user, probably it will be safe to use a special 
> user that can do nothing on the system except serve your wiki pages.
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Nir Soffer
>
>
Many thanks for your input, I will have a go at setting up a special 
user & see what happens :)

Cheers
Dave





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