[Labs-l] suexec configuration

Wed Apr 24 17:22:08 UTC 2013

I am not really sure if recompiling of apache is a best solution for
this. Isn't there any other way without having to install suexec?
isn't suphp enough for your site?

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Sorawee Porncharoenwase
<nullzero.free at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> At bots project, it seems that suexec is currently misconfigured. Last week,
> I noticed that /var/log/apache2/suexec.log has message like "cannot get
> docroot information (/home/nullzero)", I am sure that docroot now is my home
> directory (/home/nullzero is my home directory). I tested this assumption by
> mkdir public_html in my home directory, and found that my assumption is
> correct; message in /var/log/apache2/suexec.log after mkdir changed to
> "command not in docroot
> (/data/project/public_html/nullzero/cgi-bin/test.py)". This mean that
> docroot is currently wrong. To solve this problem, docroot should be changed
> to /data/project/public_html.
>
> I am not only one who face this problem, DrTrigonBot has this problem too. I
> found this error on /var/log/apache2/suexec.log: [2013-04-16 07:09:52]:
> command not in docroot
> (/data/project/DrTrigonBot/public_html/cgi-bin/panel.py).
>
> After searching Google (To be honest, I haven't configured apache2 before),
> I found some links which is releted to my problem. It seems that apache2
> needs to be recompiled in order to change suexec docroot
>
> - http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=5313
> - http://blog.chty.org/post/2008/08/12/Changing-suexec-root-directory
> -
> http://serverfault.com/questions/402418/how-to-change-suexec-root-directory-from-var-www-to-home
>
> These are all I know about this problem.
>
> Thank you :)
>
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