On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, R.M. Evers wrote:

> dear list,
>
> today i wanted to enable apache's suexec mechanism on one of our debian
> woody webservers, so that our customers can use cgi more securely. but
> in my infinite wisdom, i created all user accounts under /home/domains,
> instead of /var/www.. this means that, when suexec is enabled for a
> vhost, running a cgi script will result in an internal server error
> since debian's apache is configured with "--suexec-docroot=/var/www".
> changing my configuration to conform to this standard is way too much
> work. and i really, really don't want to recompile apache..
>
> so, does anyone know of a way to use suexec with a non-standard docroot
> for vhosts? or is this just simply impossible?
>

You need to recompile suexec with proper patching. There is no other way
around it other than changing your setup.

Fabio

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