Run apache specified users and group.

The following are the steps which you can run in apache virtual host with
the separate user/group privileges


#wget http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/centos/5/x86_64/httpd-itk-2.2.19-1.w5.x86_64.rpm

#rpm -ivh httpd-itk-2.2.19-1.w5.x86_64.rpm

#/etc/init.d/httpd stop

Then edit /etc/sysconfig/httpd and add the following line:

HTTPD=/usr/sbin/httpd.itk


Then edit httpd.conf file and make changes to the domain's Virtual host
entry  as below


<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName example.com
    DocumentRoot /path/to/web/root

    AssignUserId username groupname
</VirtualHost>

#/etc/init.d/httpd start

#chown username:groupname /path/to/webroot
#chmod o-rwx /path/to/webroot

Refence:http://www.webtatic.com/packages/httpd-itk/