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
I can’t imagine how that could happen, unless you didn’t install Apache from a package to start with.
Hi Joe,
Interestingly, the virtualmin repo wasn’t present in /etc/yum.repos.d/
(I have now added this, although i just copied the details from a Virtualmin GPL repo). This is obviously why there were no virtualmin packages installed, and why everything is coming out of the centos base.
I now have two packages to install, the clamav (0.94-3vm.el5) and httpd (2.2.3-11.el5.3vm)
if I yum update - will this just do a straight upgrade of apache, and not affect anything in the virtual servers?
Thanks,
Paul
Paul,
The Virtualmin version of the httpd package is near-identical to the RHEL/CentOS one.
If what you have in there now is the RHEL/CentOS provided httpd package, then the Virtualmin httpd package should be a clean upgrade.
Of course, now would be a great time to make sure your backups are working, and you could easily make a copy of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf before installing that 
-Eric
I’ve just tried to update the httpd package but I get the following:
[code:1]warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID a0bdbcf9
GPG key retrieval failed: [Errno 5] OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-virtualmin’[/code:1]
's all right - figured it out:
rpm --import http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/RPM-GPG-KEY-virtualmin
Everything appears to have gone smoothly. I now have this: FCGId (run as virtual server owner)
so all is looking good.
Many thanks to Eric and Joe, bit of a nail biting experience as on a live system (and first time doing it!)…but all went well.
Cheers,
Paul