In-place upgrade from RHEL 7 to Rocky 8. http 500 error

Virtualmin
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SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version Rocky 8.6
Webmin version 1.984
Virtualmin version 6.0-3
Related packages SUGGESTED

Hi all,

I performed an in-place upgrade from RHEL 7 to RHEL 8, and then to Rocky 8. All went swimmingly. The issue I am having right now is attempting to visit a PHP based website hosted on the node results in an HTTP 500.

I get the following error when I try to set the PHP version for the website:

Failed to save PHP options : The suexec command on your system is configured to only run scripts under /var/www, but the Virtualmin virtual server home directory is /home. CGI scripts run as domain owners will not be executed

I found another post where someone wasn’t running the Virtualmin provided HTTPD packages. I have the Virtualmin repo enabled, however it is not showing any Apache packages available under Rocky 8. The apache packages I have installed right now on this system came from the Rocky repos, not Virtualmin.

Any ideas?

Thanks for the help!

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Hello,

It seems that Virtualmin repos are outdated on your system. Try doing the following:

  1. Remove a repo file by running rm -f /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualmin.repo
  2. Download beta version of Virtualmin install script and running it with --setup param to configure repositories and exit
  3. Install latest Webmin 1.994 and Virtualmin 7.1 by running dnf clean all && dnf update -y
  4. Re-run config check

Also, you do not need any custom Apache builds.

After all of this was done do you have fcgiwrap package installed?

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Hi,

Thanks for the reply! Sorry for the delay, finally got around to looking at this again.

I did as you suggested and after a few small things during the checkup, it all passes now. After doing that, “FPM” is the only PHP manager available now for the site, fcgi option went away. I do have fcgiwrap installed.

I have set the site to FPM now, however I still get the same error. When I look at the FPM logs, it is showing the following:

[03-Jun-2022 11:13:21 America/Chicago] PHP Warning: require_once(/home/southern/public_html/wp-config.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/southern/public_html/wp-load.php on line 37

[03-Jun-2022 11:13:21 America/Chicago] PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required ‘/home/southern/public_html/wp-config.php’ (include_path=‘.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php’) in /home/southern/public_html/wp-load.php on line 37

The FPM config file for this site is correct, and I have verified there is a process running for this pool that is running under the user account:

[root@main php-fpm.d]# cat 15371066432688.conf
[15371066432688]
user = southern
group = southern
listen.owner = southern
listen.group = southern
listen.mode = 0660
listen = /var/php-fpm/15371066432688.sock
pm = dynamic
pm.max_children = 9999
pm.start_servers = 1
pm.min_spare_servers = 1
pm.max_spare_servers = 5
php_value[upload_tmp_dir] = /home/southern/tmp
php_value[session.save_path] = /home/southern/tmp

Still digging around. Unsure why FPM can’t open or run the files as the user. Permissions are set fine on the files as well.

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Alright, got it working. It was bad httpd.conf configuration from manual changes I had made long ago that caused some issues. Site is loading now :slight_smile:

Next question - Why did fcgid disappear as an option, and how do I get that back?

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Please stick with PHP-FPM – you really don’t need it back! :wink:

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