Part 4: Set Up the Web Pages (Content) for Your Site
We now want to provide a separate account to set up the server content. This allows others
the change the content with having to user the server administrator's account. We can also
"jail" the web maintainers account so it can only work in the web site directories and below.
They cannot go "up" and get at operating system files (i.e. they can't install packages).
Using PuTTY log in with the administror's account. I chose the web maintence account to be
www so the following steps create the webberwww account and the highest level
directory.
Create a "webberwww" group for maintenance sudo groupadd webberwww
Create a "webberwww" user for maintenance sudo useradd -d /var/www/sooty -m webberwww -g webberwww
Set the "webberwww" user password sudo passwd webberwww
Create the www.sooty.ca root directory and set ownership sudo mkdir /var/www/sooty sudo chown webberwww /var/www/sooty sudo chgrp webberwww /var/www/sooty
sysadmin@webber:~$ ls /var/www -l
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 96 Jun 30 14:41 index.html
drwxr-xr-x 9 webberwww webberwww 4096 Jun 30 23:11 sooty
Create the sub-directories for www.sooty.ca
...log in as webberwww (so the subdirectories are owned by webberwww) mkdir /var/www/sooty/BCP mkdir /var/www/sooty/pix mkdir /var/www/sooty/plasma mkdir /var/www/sooty/shippers mkdir /var/www/sooty/trends mkdir /var/www/sooty/whitepapers
Load up web pages from their backup archive on Window computer
c:\putty\pscp -v -pw password C:\WebBCK\index.html webberwww@192.168.0.99:/var/www/sooty
c:\putty\pscp -v -pw password C:\WebBCK\contact.html webberwww@192.168.0.99:/var/www/sooty
...and 200 more files...
With the website populated we can move on to providing FTP to our users.
