Hi,

I'm looking at this: /usr/sbin/suexec -V

-D AP_DOC_ROOT="/var/www"
-D AP_GID_MIN=100
-D AP_HTTPD_USER="apache"
-D AP_LOG_EXEC="/var/log/httpd/suexec.log"
-D AP_SAFE_PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
-D AP_UID_MIN=500
-D AP_USERDIR_SUFFIX="public_html"

and doc_root is incorrect.

How can I go about safely reinstalling apache to get that set to /home?

I have CentOS 5.2 and VM pro.

Cheers,

Paul

Howdy,

Do you recall how you installed Virtualmin, was it with the install.sh script, or did you use the RPM's or perhaps a tarball?

I have a suspicion that you may have the CentOS version of Apache (or suexec) rather than the Virtualmin one. You can tell by running this:

rpm -qf /usr/sbin/suexec

What is the output of that command?
-Eric

Hi Eric,

Yes, I am using the CentOS version of Apache. The reason for this was that I had set the server up already before I installed Virtualmin.

Is there a way of recompiling with the Virtualmin version of Apache?

Cheers,

Paul

Hey Paul,

One more thing (it'll help decide the best way to resolve things) -- did you install via the install.sh, or did you use the RPM/tarball in order to install Virtualmin?

Thanks!
-Eric

I upgraded from Virtualmin GPL...unfortunately I can't remember how I actually did the upgrade to Virtualmin Pro.

I can only imagine that it was done via the install.sh script....

Cheers,
Paul

Hi Paul,

Okay, so it definitely looks as if you need the Virtualmin version of Apache. They have Suexec pointing at /home rather than /var/www.

Joe tells me that the Virtualmin and CentOS Apache packages are identical, with the exception of where suexec_docroot points.

So how would you go about changing your Apache version to use the Virtualmin repository?

There's a few different ways to go about it, but the ultimate goal would be to install the following packages from here:

Repository:
http://YOUR_LICENCE_KEY:YOUR_SERIAL_NUM@software.virtualmin.com/centos/5.2/i386/

Packages:

httpd, httpd-manual, httpd-devel, mod_ssl, and mod_fcgid packages

One way to do it would be to manually download them all, then use RPM to install them in place of your current versions.

I'd still make a solid backup of my config files in /etc and such (or heck, the entire system) before making any changes :-)
-Eric

Hi Eric,

Thank you for all this assistance on this. I will look at doing this early next week, so will post back any problems/success stories :)

Cheers,

Paul

Sure thing... if it gives you a hard time trying to install those, just yell! RPM may balk since the Virtualmin Apache version is a tad older, you might have to install them with the --oldpackage option or so.
-Eric

--oldpackage shouldn't be necessary. Epoch, FTW!

yum can also install them, if the virtualmin repo is available.

Well, as usual certain things took longer than expected and am now back to trying to change this.

My question is this - if i update the httpd package etc to the virtualmin version, will my virtual servers list be overwritten? I have just tested this using a virtualmin gpl version and it seems that I may lose my virtual servers...which i dont want to do!

Cheers,

Paul