Using suphp To Secure A Shared Server


	Using suphp To Secure A Shared Server

prostoalex

1-18-2008 4:26 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bb94f104-d503-47a1-bf22-29e584736841/9DB1AAA4-7778-4D05-AE33-7BB6737A172F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.stuartherbert.com/php/2008/01/18/using-suphp-to-secure-a-shared-server/" href="http://blog.stuartherbert.com/php/2008/01/18/using-suphp-to-secure-a-shared-server/" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.stuartherbert.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.stuartherbert.com/php/2008/01/18/using-suphp-to-secure-a-shared-server/"><P>Like Apache’s own suexec, suphp is a solution that allows PHP to run as the user and group that owns any particular website on a shared hosting server.</p> <P>suphp consists of two components:</p> <UL>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">mod_suphp, an Apache module that replaces mod_php</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">suphp, a setuid binary that replaces Apache’s suexec</LI>
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<P>It relies on PHP/CGI having been installed onto the server first.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.stuartherbert.com/php/2008/01/18/using-suphp-to-secure-a-shared-server/">suphp is compiled and installed in the same way as any other Apache module.  These instructions are for Apache 2.2, but they will work fine for Apache 2.0 as well.  (You can run suphp on Apache 1.3 too).  (Gentoo Linux and Seed Linux users can skip these instructions; you can install suphp using ‘<FONT face="courier new,courier">emerge mod_suphp</FONT>‘).</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.stuartherbert.com/php/2008/01/18/using-suphp-to-secure-a-shared-server/"><P>The first thing you need to do to your Apache config files is to comment out mod_php.  mod_suphp is a replacement for mod_php; you cannot run both at the same time.</p> <P>Then, in your main httpd.conf file, add the following:</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9DB1AAA4-7778-4D05-AE33-7BB6737A172F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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