I had thought of feeding this data into a db backend, but after consulting with our host decided it made more sense to cache this static content, ready to be served by apache without further processing overhead. I'm assuming that handling the pdf creation in distinct processes would mean using either eval or exec? I'm not quite sure how that will help.

One friend I consulted today on this suggested using an suid wrapper or a sudoers entry to permit apache to handle writing to a directory it would otherwise be unable to write from. My friend also suggested adding host based authentication to my existing userID -> password challenge response as an added precaution. I'm still rereading the sudoers man page after a two year hiatus from using it.

-- Hugh

In reply to Re^2: Allowing Apache to Write to filesystem by hesco
in thread Allowing Apache to Write to filesystem by hesco

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