Apache config as user 'expo'

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Philip Sargent 2022-03-29 16:26:53 +01:00
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<li>to install the master system following a new operating system install on the public server <li>to install the master system following a new operating system install on the public server
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<p>Apache needs to run as user 'expo', not 'www-data' as standard. This is due to a basic incompatibility in permissions between apache and git: git does not honour existing permissions exactly. See
<a href="https://nim-labs.com/run-apache-alternate-user/">How to run apache as an alternate user</a>.
<p>Although troggle will appear to work with sqlite database, it needs a proper concurrrent access database to manage multiple users. sqlite is
single-user (effectively a separate instance of django is created for each page access, so even one person looking at several pages at once is
"multi-user").
<p>The folder structure on the server is as shown below. It is all <p>The folder structure on the server is as shown below. It is all
in the user folder for the user <var>expo</var> i.e. in in the user folder for the user <var>expo</var> i.e. in
<br>/home/user/expo: <br>/home/user/expo: