On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 13:56, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > 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
fabio, thanks for your speedy reply. so it's possible to only recompile suexec? or do you mean i have to recompile apache with proper patching? kind regards, -rodi