Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> www-data is *debian* because on Redhat the user/groups is named "apache"
> if you use google add your distribution to the search string!

Please explain how the specific user Apache is running as is relevant.  Is it
only an indicator of the distribution the example is based on?  If so, are you
saying that distributions without SELinux support cannot securely allow Apache
to write files within DocumentRoot.

> besides that there a *two* levels to care: FS-permissions *and* SELinux
> 
> chown apache:apache /path/to/folder/
> chmod 770 /path/to/folder/
> 
> http://david-latham.blogspot.co.at/2008/08/allow-httpd-apache-to-write-to-files.html

Are you saying to all Apache write access, but to use SELinux to limit the
directories and files it can update?  That sounds reasonable to me, but I get 
the
impression that Tim had something else in mind from his very specific statement:
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