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Oudin
Asked: 2012-06-27 08:48:52 +0800 CST

How to change suexec root directory from "/var/www" to "/home"?

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Hi I've installed suexec using on ubuntu 12.04:

apt-get install apache2 apache2-suexec libapache2-mod-fcgid php5-cgi

However when I run the following command:

sudo /usr/lib/apache2/suexec -V

I get the following info:

 -D AP_DOC_ROOT="/var/www"
 -D AP_GID_MIN=100
 -D AP_HTTPD_USER="www-data"
 -D AP_LOG_EXEC="/var/log/apache2/suexec.log"
 -D AP_SAFE_PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
 -D AP_UID_MIN=100
 -D AP_USERDIR_SUFFIX="public_html"

I'm utilizing "/home/user/public_html" to serve users content on the web not "/var/www" How can I change the root directory to "/home"?

apache-2.2 mod-fcgid suexec

4 Answers

  1. Or you can 

    apt-get install apache2-suexec-custom

    after install go to

    cd /etc/apache2/suexec

    edit the file vi www-data

    You can see the first 2 lines, make the changes: replace /var/www with /home

    esc 
:wq

    after, restart apache

    /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
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  2. Best Answer

    You're using ubuntu. Therefore recompile is pretty simple.

    Add source repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list . For 12.04 run

    echo "deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main"|sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

    change de.archive.ubuntu.com to whatever country you're in. After that update your repository.

    apt-get update

    Change dir and download sources:

    mkdir ~/apache_new  ; cd ~/apache_new
apt-get source apache2
apt-get build-dep apache2

    It will download and extract apache source and install all dependencies therefore you'll be able to build apache. But you'll need to fix AP_DOC_ROOT. So cd to dir with apache source and change dir path in --with-suexec-docroot option in debian/rules file. So now you'll need to build package. You can make it with 

    debuild -us -uc

    That's it. Now yyou have apache deb-package with fixed path. Just install it with sudo dpkg -i. But watch on updates. Update will wipe out all your efforts. So run aptitude hold apache2 to forbid updates and don't forget to recompile it each time manually (or write script fpr that).

    Good luck.

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  3. I'm utilizing "/home/user/public_html" to serve users content on the web not "/var/www" How can I change the root directory to "/home"?

    actually you can use mod_userdir

    in this case suexec will spawn scripts from owner of /home/user - in this example "user"

    so you don't need to define SuexecUserGroup in apache config

    UPD: just enable userdir module

    and add to main vhost config

    UserDir /home/*/public_html

    and

    <Directory /home/*/public_html/ >
      AllowOverride All
      Options +ExecCGI
      AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl  .py .rb
</Directory>
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  4. You need to recompile it from suexec.c, ideally you could install virtualmin, so it will do it automatically via install.sh and also it will create accounts, domains etc.

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