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Setting up shared development machine

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I have a server machine that contains 10 users. OS: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS 64bit

These users are developers (mainly web developers: HTML+JS+PHP+MYSQL)

I allowed them to remote login through XRDP and VNC.

Now everything works fine but the problem in /var/www

What is the suitable permission for this directory so they don't have problems while sharing some code between them although they aren't root. All of them are simple users.

I need to know if there is a secure way of letting them share source code and at the same time each one have its own repository. I welcome any idea.

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answered 3 Years ago allowiel · Accepted Answer

Another Method (due to the bounty :))

You can do it this way if you don't want to keep all users in the same webroot. You can make different directories as webroot aliases for the /var/www/ directory. Suppose you h ave two users u1 and u2.

I supposed you already installed apace2 if not do it sudo apt-get install apache2

I'll make the directories /home/u1/web and /home/u2/web to be the webroot of the users u1 and u2.

sudo chmod 775 home/u1/web

sudo chmod 775 home/u2/web



sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

Create alias (add the following to the file ) for the user u1:

Alias /u1 /home/u1/web

<Directory /u1>

    Options All

    AllowOverride All

    order allow,deny

    allow from all

</Directory>

Create alias (add the following to the file ) for the user u2:

Alias /u2 /home/u2/web

<Directory /u1>

    Options All

    AllowOverride All

    order allow,deny

    allow from all

</Directory>

Now Each user can access his web root by pointing your web browser to localhost/u1 for user u1 and localhost/u2 for user u2