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How to set up secure permissions: Multiple Users & Websites / Apache / www-data

I had my own private VPS that my hosting service managed
and now I am switching to a cloud server where I have to manage everything myself. I am
trying to mimic their secure setup that they had. On my old & new server, I have my
users/websites set up like those listed below. My Apache Virtual Hosts have these as the
DocumentRoot, so they are running right
now:



/home/user1/site1.com
/home/user1/site2.com

/home/user2/site3.com


/home/user3/site4.com
.....


Basically
on my old VPS, the Apache web server could run all of these sites, and at the
same time
, each user did not have access to the other user's files (in case
one site got hacked, the hacker couldn't access the rest of the sites). I noticed that
directories had 755 and files 644
permissions.



The way I set up now, everything in
these user directories are in the www-data group, the directories have 775 and files 664
permissions. Files from one user's website are accessible from another user's website
(not good).



How do I set up the permissions to
mimic my old VPS described
above?




EDIT:
After
further studying, I should note that I set my server up to run http/2. I found that
Apache MPM-ITK is actually required for separating vhosts based on user/group. However,
Apache MPM-ITK is not compatible with http/2. I'm not sure what else to do except
abandon http/2 in order to get the mpm-itk mod?

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