Suexec with Apache 1.3.29

[Peter Risdon]

Mikkel Christensen wrote:

>This is about Perl scripts only.
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> This isn't about php at all. I know that mod_php will never run as 
> suexec and I'm not trying to do so either. Neither am I trying to get 
> php to run under suexec as CGI.


Ah... I qualified my first post to you in terms of php only. I certainly 
didn't get this impression from your reply.

>>I might have missed this in an earlier post, but when apache starts do 
>>you get lines in your /var/log/httpd-error.log like this:
>>
>>[notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/local/sbin/suexec)
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>It don't output the line above. But everything seems to be right.
>Apache tells me suexec is there and that it is properly configured to. The suEXEC log-line is not comming but still it's loaded in some way.
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 From the apache manual. The wording is identical for versions 1.3 and 2:

<quote>

Upon startup of Apache, it looks for the file |suexec| in the directory 
defined by the |--sbindir| option (default is 
"/usr/local/apache/sbin/suexec"). If Apache finds a properly configured 
suEXEC wrapper, it will print the following message to the error log:

| [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: //path/to/suexec/) |

If you don't see this message at server startup, the server is most 
likely not finding the wrapper program where it expects it, or the 
executable is not installed /setuid root/.

If you want to enable the suEXEC mechanism for the first time and an 
Apache server is already running you must kill and restart Apache. 
Restarting it with a simple HUP or USR1 signal will not be enough.

If you want to disable suEXEC you should kill and restart Apache after 
you have removed the |suexec| file.

</quote>


I have found this the only valid test for successful installation of 
apache suexec. The above quote also offers some tests - is the suexec 
wrapper there? Is it setuid root? Did you already have a running apache 
when you installed this and if so have you killed it properly prior to a 
restart?

PWR.