Name

User

Synopsis

                     User 
                     username
                  

[server config, or within <VirtualHost>]

Specifies the user you want the Apache server to process requests as. Either a username or user ID can be specified; a user ID should be preceded by a hash mark (#). Setting this to root is highly discouraged. Many administrators create a user nobody for Apache.

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