Re: CGI and PHP Scripts
> (I have tried using suexec as it is installed with the Debian Apache
> package, but when I tried to execute a script in a virtual host, not
> using the www.domain.com/~username address, it did not execute the
> script, saying it was not in the document root. Does anyone know what
the default document root is
/var/www
If you are setting up apache from scratch, I'd use the default as it
avoids much hassle w/ suexec.
If you want to use a different default docroot you need to recompile
suexec
For our approach see:
http://csl.ltc.org/sys/project.d/suexec.d/install.txt
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On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Anand Atreya wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just recently begun using Debian and am in the process of
> migrating a FreeBSD 4.4 server over to it. This server had many
> different users and allowed them to execute CGI and PHP scripts in their
> public_html folder (or any folder under it) as their own user, not as
> the user of the webserver, using mod_cgiwrap and mod_phpcgiwrap (from
> Steven Haryanto). The site where this was located
> (http://steven.haryan.to/mod_cgiwrap/mod_cgiwrap.html) no longer exists,
> and in hindsight, it seems as if mod_cgiwrap was not a very secure
> solution to begin with.
> Does anybody have any recommendations on how to set up a virtual hosting Apache server such that users can have CGI and PHP scripts execute as themselves, without having to put #!/usr/bin/php at the top of php scripts, and that is completely transparent to the user, also allowing them to place scripts anywhere in their document root?
> (I have tried using suexec as it is installed with the Debian Apache
> package, but when I tried to execute a script in a virtual host, not
> using the www.domain.com/~username address, it did not execute the
> script, saying it was not in the document root. Does anyone know what
> the default document root is for the Debian configuration of suexec?)
>
> Thanks a lot.
> -- Anand Atreya
>
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