Problem installing and configuring suPHP on Debian 4.0 Etch

[DirtyMonkey]

MY APOLOGIES, WRONG FORUM - MOD/ADMIN PLEASE DELETE
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I have followed taken instruction from the following sources but still suPHP fails to work.
I believe it may be specific to Debian/Ubuntu but I'm not sure.
End result is that browser tries to download .php page instead of Apache processing it.

Do I actually need to re-compile suPHP?
Have I included a step which is not required?
Have I missed something specific to Debian?
What logs should I be checking for errors?

NB: I am using Plesk not ISPConfig (I don't think it makes a difference)

http://www.howtoforge.com/apache2_suphp_php4_php5
http://www.howtoforge.com/install-suphp-on-various-linux-distributions-for-use-with-ispconfig-2.2.20-and-above
http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-13544.html

1. Disabled the normal PHP5 module:

a2dismod php5
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

2. Installed the prerequisites needed to build mod_suphp:

apt-get install php5-cgi apache2-prefork-dev

3. Downloaded and built suPHP, adding the extra option '--sbindir=/usr/lib/suphp':

cd /tmp
wget http://www.suphp.org/download/suphp-0.6.3.tar.gz
tar xvfz suphp-0.6.3.tar.gz
cd suphp-0.6.3
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --with-apache-user=www-data --with-setid-mode=paranoid --with-

apxs=/usr/bin/apxs2 --sbindir=/usr/lib/suphp
make
make install

4. Added the suPHP module to Apache configuration:

nano /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
LoadModule suphp_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_suphp.so

5. Created the configuration file /etc/suphp.conf

cp /tmp/suphp-0.6.3/doc/suphp.conf-example /etc/suphp.conf

[global]
;Path to logfile
logfile=/var/log/suphp.log

;Loglevel
loglevel=info

;User Apache is running as
webserver_user=www-data

;Path all scripts have to be in
docroot=/

;Path to chroot() to before executing script
;chroot=/mychroot

;Security options
allow_file_group_writeable=false
allow_file_others_writeable=false
allow_directory_group_writeable=false
allow_directory_others_writeable=false

;Check whether script is within DOCUMENT_ROOT
check_vhost_docroot=true

;Send minor error messages to browser
errors_to_browser=false

;PATH environment variable
env_path=/bin:/usr/bin

;Umask to set, specify in octal notation
umask=0077

;Minimum UID
min_uid=100

;Minimum GID
min_gid=100


[handlers]
;Handler for php-scripts
x-httpd-php=php:/usr/bin/php5-cgi

;Handler for CGI-scripts
x-suphp-cgi=execute:!self

6. Add the suPHP module to the Apache configuration.

nano /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
LoadModule suphp_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_suphp.so

7. Created hosts.conf file:

# PHP version detected 5
<IfModule mod_suphp.c>
<Directory "/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/">
php_admin_flag engine on
suPHP_Engine On
suPHP_ConfigPath "/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/"
AddHandler php5-script .php
AddHandler x-httpd-php .php5
suPHP_AddHandler php5-script .php
<Files php.ini>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>
php_value open_basedir "/tmp/"
php_value upload_tmp_dir "/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/tmp/"
</Directory>
</IfModule>

8. Restarted Apache:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

[Hans]

I Think you forget to run ISPConfig in suPHP mode, because you can not use php_admin_flag directives like: php_admin_flag engine on

To run ISPConfig in suPHP mode:

Edit /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/lib/config.inc.php find the line:

$go_info["server"]["apache2_php"] = 'both';

and change to:

$go_info["server"]["apache2_php"] = 'suphp';

Restart ispConfig afterwards with:

/etc/init.d/ispconfig_server restart

Excuse me if i am wrong, but i think this is the reason.

[DirtyMonkey]

Hi Hans, as previously mentioned I am not running ISPConfig. (although I am considering it)

DM.

[Hans]

Ok, now i see. Sorry.
Did you remove all the php-admin flags from your vhost file as well?

[DirtyMonkey]

I haven't no, is it not required?

DM.

[Hans]

Yes it is required as php_admin flags are not understood by suPHP.
For information also have a look here (http://www.howtoforge.com/suphp_debian_etch_ispconfig). I've mentioned it there as well.