while configuring dynamic virtual hosting (with mod_vhost_alias) on a new server i ran into this problem
i create a new group named g(username) for each new virtual web, I set all user files to chmod 640 to avoid them to be read by another user my apache server runs as www-data so i need to add user www-data to each virtual web group to be able to serve its documents this all works fine but when I create a new virtual web, that means a new group, user and home directory and try to access its documents via http I get this error in the apache error.log Permission denied: /home/html/inko.sk/public_html/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable everything works well after restarting the apache server, it looks like the running apache server doesn't know that the user it runs as (www-data) became a member of the new group created for the new virtual web is there a way to somehow refresh this info for the running process without restarting it? do you have another suggestion? If I have to restart apache every time I add a new server then I am on the beginning and usibng mod_vhost_alias didn't help at all. thanks Martin Dragun
