[BlueOnyx:09449] Dirs/files rights via FTP AND via CMS

[Frank Soyer]

Hi list,
sorry if this subject was already treated, but I have more and more 
problems with rights and I don't find an acceptable solution.
My problem is that most web developers are now using CMS, Wordpress, 
Joomla, and so on. These CMS have their own system of update, or module 
install, or themes install. Via the admin page with a browser, you can 
do all that.
But if you do that, the site tree must be owned by Apache.

By another way, when you need to upload files or specific scripts, you 
need to use FTP. Apache can't connect via ftp, so you use a user created 
for that.
If the site is owned by apache, this user have no rights. If you change 
web ownership for this FTP user, apache don't have rights so the admin 
fonctionnalities of the CMS no longer work. Argh.

What is the solution ??? Changing web ownership any time you want use 
ftp or use cms is not one.

I found a solution by adding W right on group on all the files and RX on 
dir. All users created in the vhost are in this group, so it works. But 
it's complicated, we must manually do that after all changes, or new 
files, or new directories....



How do you do, you all ??
Thanks in advance.
Frank