Commit da17c2b8 authored by Gabriel Hurley's avatar Gabriel Hurley
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[1.2.X] Fixed #7616 -- Added advice on unix socket permissions and umasks to... 

[1.2.X] Fixed #7616 -- Added advice on unix socket permissions and umasks to fastcgi deployment documentation. Thanks to Malcolm Tredinnick for the report and advice, and PaulM and cramm for reviewing the patch.

Backport of [14276] from trunk.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/releases/1.2.X@14277 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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docs/howto/deployment/fastcgi.txt

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@@ -112,6 +112,14 @@ Running a preforked server on a Unix domain socket:: 


    ./manage.py runfcgi method=prefork socket=/home/user/mysite.sock pidfile=django.pid

    

.. admonition:: Socket security



    Django's default umask requires that the webserver and the Django fastcgi

    process be run with the same group **and** user. For increased security,

    you can run them under the same group but as different users. If you do

    this, you will need to set the umask to 0002 using the ``umask`` argument

    to ``runfcgi``.



Run without daemonizing (backgrounding) the process (good for debugging)::



    ./manage.py runfcgi daemonize=false socket=/tmp/mysite.sock maxrequests=1