Daily Archive for Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Notes: Getting suEXEC execution for PHP under Virtualmin GPL

Published on June 4, 2009 in notes and tech. 2 Comments

(On Debian 5.0. May be slightly different on other distros)

Create files in /etc/skel/:

$ cd /etc/skel
$ mkdir -P etc/php5
$ cp /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini /etc/skel/etc/php5/php.ini
$ mkdir fcgi-bin
$ vi fcgi-bin/php5.fcgi

Paste the following:

#!/bin/bash

export PHPRC=$PWD/../etc/php5
umask 022
export SCRIPT_FILENAME=$PATH_TRANSLATED
exec /usr/bin/php-cgi

Then, in Virtualmin > System Settings > Server Templates > Default Settings > Apache website > Directives and settings:

ServerName ${DOM}
ServerAlias www.${DOM}
DocumentRoot ${HOME}/public_html
ErrorLog /var/log/virtualmin/${DOM}_error_log
CustomLog /var/log/virtualmin/${DOM}_access_log combined
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.php4 index.php5

Options -Indexes IncludesNOEXEC FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
allow from all
AllowOverride All

AddHandler fcgid-script .php
FCGIWrapper ${HOME}/fcgi-bin/php5.fcgi .php

AddHandler cgi-script cgi

Important notes:

  • ExecCGI is required! Otherwise, 403 Forbidden errors will occur.
  • The wrapper script and php files must not be group/world-writable!
  • Look in /var/log/apache2/suexec.log for hints if you’re having trouble.