Apache WWW-server: User

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## 11. User

The user the web server should run as. This means that the web server can only read and write those files which that user has right to read or write, respectively. Therefore this should be set to a user with very low priviliges, e.g. nobody.

Even better is to create a user specifically for the web server. This is very important if you want to let the web server write files in some directory, as the user nobody should not have any rights to write files anywhere except in `/tmp`.

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