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 -- <user> fajita: step one <fajita> Whatever the problem, step one is always to look in the error log. <user> fajita: step two <fajita> When in danger or in doubt, step two is to scream and shout.