Re: [Nolug] mount question

Thanks Scott, that worked out great.

I'd still like to know how to mount an NFS share as a non-root user.

Dave

PS the virtual host example you showed was extremely helpful but the
ending tag wasn't closed, i.e. </VirtualHost>. It took me a minute to
figure out why it wasn't working. (Duh) ;-)

On Sat, December 4, 2004 12:51 pm, Scott Harney said:
> David John wrote:
>
> Better idea. Run apache on your firewall and reverseproxy connections
> in to your two webservers based on the virtualhost URL. Here's how to
> do it: http://www.scottharney.com/blog/2003/02/21/#apache_proxy
>
> O'Reilly's "Linux Hacks" book has some similar tips in the last couple
> of chapters.
>
>
>> Here is what I'm trying to do:
>>
>> I have one public IP
>> I have a basic firewall distro
>> I have port 80 pointed towards Box A which is running Apache, etc.
>> I have port 8000 pointed towards Box B which is running squirrelmail,
>> etc.
>> I have set up NFS on Box B to share the squirrelmail directory, etc.
>> I can mount said directory on Box A and everything is dandy.
>>
>> What I would like to do is mount said directory as user Apache so that
>> squirrelmail would appear to be running on Box A. (I have already set
>> up
>> a virtual host.)
>>
>> How would I go about achieving this through fstab or other means? I
>> know
>> this probably isn't the most secure thing in the world but I am curious
>> to
>> see how it would perform. Apache is running as userid, groupid 72 on
>> Box
>> A and 48 on Box B.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dave
>>
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