Recompile suexec to work with Apache Virtual Domains on Fedora
Q. Having problems getting suexec and Apache to work together with your virtual domains ?
A. You need to re-compile suexec to work from a different document root.
Suexec and the Document Root
Basically, suexec is hard coded to work from /var/www/html/ if your virtual domain is using sub directories under another path then you'll get this problem. I like to host each of my domains on a separate user account under /home.
Here's what I use to recompile suexec under Fedora core 5. Incidentally I ran this on a VMWare session on my laptop just to be safe.
Recompiling
Make sure you have gcc installed, if not
yum install gcc
The following creates a new suexec copies it in after backing up your old one. Change the /home on the 4th line to whatever document root you require.
get http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.0.58.tar.gz tar -zxvf httpd-2.0.58.tar.gz cd httpd-2.0.58 ./configure --enable-suexec --with-suexec-docroot=/home make cp /usr/sbin/suexec /usr/sbin/suexec- cp support/suexec /usr/sbin/suexec
Posted on Wednesday, Dec 6, 2006
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Fortunately for you, the update versions of httpd all include suexec built in. Previous versions of Apache on Fedora Core and RHEL put suexec in the httpd-suex bundle.
In the future, look up features like this on rpm.pbone.net, which is very useful for hunting up RPM's that have new features.
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