At 12:52 AM 2/4/99 +0100, Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
The "Rapidsite/Apa" server type is the fourth most popular (by domains served) web server on the 'net, right after vanilla Apache, IIS, and Netscape Enterprise. Its current market share is about half that of NS Enterprise, with over 86,000 to Netscape's 171,000. Given that there are no real environment standards for shared hosting with other server types, RS/Apa is arguably *the* dominant shared hosting platform in existence right now, if you consider the platform to be a combination of the server, the installed software, directory structures, hardware configurations, user control panel, etc.
Actually, it's quite easy to setup with Apache if suexec was included in the compilation: It's just one directive in <VirtualHost>, so I'd consider Apache as shared as one get :)
Apache's just the server - RS/Apa goes beyond just the server to a whole host (no pun intended) of provisioning and other resources for shared hosting.
The problem is, that setting su-exec and understanding it's operation (as it's extremly security sensitive) is not trivial, so services with lower quality standards seem to ignore this configuration.
RS/Apa servers run as root, and set effective uid on every request as soon as the VirtualHost for the request is known, so suExec configuration is not an issue, and it provides much more isolation between users. But anyway, this is all a digression from the subject of Zope, except insofar as I'd like to see Zope become a part of the RS/Apa standard-issue toolset/options. :)