I am using Apache 2 with suexec enabled at my web server. OS is RHEL 3,
but I hope Fedora people also knows the solution.
It is though not the right list to ask this.
The reason I chose fedora-list was because it is my desktop OS and FC3
contains httpd and httpd-suexec. So it should be somehow configured. But
I am new to this and don't understand.
I compiled the stuff by downloading httpd-2.0.52.tar.gz from
httpd.apache.org and putting it into /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
rpmbuild -bb SPECS/httpd.spec (the spec from the tar.gz) gave me rpms in
RPMS/i386
Normal websites run OK with old httpd.conf. I added a new virtual host
with parameter for suexec:
SuexecUserGroup Uname Gname
But the server ran only as usual user of httpd - in my configuration it
is apache. SuexecUserGroup did not change anything, even though
/var/log/httpd/error_log says httpd started with suexec enabled, as
manual says. /usr/sbin/suexec seem to have right permissions.
What might be the problem?
Probably a misconception about what suEXEC does. Please read
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/suexec.html
carefully. suEXEC does _not_ cause the vhost to run as different
user/group. I guess you would want
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/perchild.html
but as the site clearly says, this module isn't stable/usable yet.
I created a test.php for running at virtual host, but with it, I could
not write a test file in the user's directory, because of permissions.
So I figured it out that php did not execute under the username I needed.
Timothy.
