suexec and Apache 2.0.52 ?

[Timothy Ha]

>>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.
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>It is though not the right list to ask this.
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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
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>>Normal websites run OK with old httpd.conf. I added a new virtual host 
>>with parameter for suexec:
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>>SuexecUserGroup Uname Gname
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>>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.
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>>What might be the problem?
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>Probably a misconception about what suEXEC does. Please read
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>http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/suexec.html
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>carefully. suEXEC does _not_ cause the vhost to run as different
>user/group. I guess you would want
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>http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/perchild.html
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>but as the site clearly says, this module isn't stable/usable yet.
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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.