fastcgi and php on Debian etch walkthrough

[TauTau]

Originally Posted by meemu

which permissions is denied? I mean which file is it trying to open?

i don't see that, since there's no real information in the logs, but as mentioned, it doesn't matter if I call an existing php file or some nonsense...

It's worth checking whether ispconfig created a correct apache config - the new host does it have these things in it?

SuexecUserGroup uid gid
ScriptAlias /php-fastcgi/ /var/www/php-fastcgi/gid/
AddHandler php-fastcgi .php .php3 .php4 .php5 .phtml .phps

SuexecUserGroup is there, as well as ScriptAlias, but no "AddHandler" directive. Though I don't have that for any of the sites, and the old ones are working... I do have AddType though with the mentioned filetypes. I think that's a setting in a ISPConfig file (somewhere where it reads AddHandler, AddType or both)

and you have this in /var/www/php-fastcgi/gid/

php-fcgi-starter  php.ini

there is the php-fcgi-starter script but no php.ini. But again, this is the same for all directories...
(no copy paste right now, gotta love putty for Windows Mobile )

[meemu]

hmmm that looks all okay i'd say. Maybe, since it is a permission denied errors, carefully compare all folders involved - starting from /var/www all the way to /var/www/php-fastcgi and see if there are any differences between the working ones and the new ones

[TauTau]

hm, can't see any relevant differences here (web5 works, web8 is the new one)

w154:/var/www# ls -l
total 40
drwxr-xr-x 2 root              root 4096 Feb 27 20:39 apache2-default
drwxr-xr-x 3 root              root 4096 Oct 10 00:30 localhost
drwxr-xr-x 8 root              root 4096 Feb 29 00:21 php-fastcgi
drwxr-xr-x 2 root              root 4096 Oct  9 01:39 sharedip
drwxr-xr-x 8 web3_lars         web3 4096 Feb 27 22:30 web3
drwxr-xr-x 9 web4_lars         web4 4096 Feb 27 22:13 web4
drwxr-xr-x 9 web5_perforations web5 4096 Mar  2 00:42 web5
drwxr-xr-x 8 web6_durchbruch   web6 4096 Mar  2 00:43 web6
drwxr-x--- 8 web8_lars         web8 4096 Mar  2 00:43 web8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root              root 4096 Feb  1 06:25 webalizer
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data          web6   13 Feb 10 23:07 www.cafe-durchbruch.de -> /var/www/web6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data          web4   13 Oct 11 20:33 www.mittelerdes-schwert.de -> /var/www/web4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data          web8   13 Feb 29 00:21 www.oeschey-it.de -> /var/www/web8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data          web3   13 Oct  9 07:42 www.oeschey.de -> /var/www/web3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data          web5   13 Feb 10 23:01 www.perforations.de -> /var/www/web5

w154:/var/www# ls -l web5
total 28
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root              root   44 Mar  2 00:42 Maildir -> /var/www/web5/user/web5_perforations/Maildir
drwxr-xr-x  2 www-data          web5 4096 Feb 22 22:21 backup
drwxrwxr-x  2 www-data          web5 4096 Feb 10 23:01 cgi-bin
drwxr-xr-x  3 web5_perforations web5 4096 Mar  2 00:30 log
drwxrwxrwx  2 web5_perforations web5 4096 Feb 10 23:01 phptmp
drwxr-xr-x  2 web5_perforations web5 4096 Feb 10 23:01 ssl
drwxr-xr-x  4 web5_perforations web5 4096 Feb 20 21:27 user
drwxrwxr-x 23 web5_perforations web5 4096 Feb 19 20:07 web

w154:/var/www# ls -l web8
total 24
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root      root   36 Mar  2 00:43 Maildir -> /var/www/web8/user/web8_lars/Maildir
drwxr-xr-x 2 web8_lars web8 4096 Feb 29 00:21 cgi-bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 web8_lars web8 4096 Feb 29 00:30 log
drwxrwxrwx 2 web8_lars web8 4096 Feb 29 00:21 phptmp
drwxr-xr-x 2 web8_lars web8 4096 Feb 29 00:21 ssl
drwxr-xr-x 3 web8_lars web8 4096 Feb 29 00:22 user
drwxrwxr-x 4 web8_lars web8 4096 Feb 29 04:00 web

w154:/var/www# ls -l web5/web/
total 80720
-rw-rw-r--  1 web5_perforations web5   104874 Feb 22 18:52 CHANGELOG.php
-rw-rw-r--  1 web5_perforations web5     3429 Feb 12 16:35 COPYRIGHT.php
-rw-rw-r--  1 web5_perforations web5     4376 Feb 12 16:36 INSTALL.php
-rw-rw-r--  1 web5_perforations web5    17977 Feb 12 16:36 LICENSE.php
drwxrwxr-x  9 web5_perforations web5     4096 Feb 12 15:43 administrator
drwxrwxr-x  2 web5_perforations web5   540672 Mar  2 01:05 cache
drwxrwxr-x 26 web5_perforations web5     4096 Feb 29 09:39 components
-rw-rw-r--  1 web5_perforations web5     2672 Feb 18 19:46 configuration.php
-rw-rw-r--  1 web5_perforations web5     4372 Feb 12 16:35 configuration.php-dist
drwxrwxr-x  2 web5_perforations web5     4096 Feb 12 16:16 css
drwxrwxr-x  2 web5_perforations web5     4096 Feb 12 16:16 editor
drwxrwxr-x  2 web5_perforations web5     4096 Feb 10 23:01 error
-rw-rw-r--  1 web5_perforations web5     3262 Feb 12 16:35 favicon.ico
-rw-rw-r--  1 web5_perforations web5 81460234 Feb 12 16:36 gamedata.db9
-rw-rw-r--  1 web5_perforations web5     3745 Feb 12 16:36 globals.php
drwxrwxr-x  3 web5_perforations web5    12288 Feb 12 16:17 help
-rw-rw-r--  1 web5_perforations web5     4829 Feb 12 16:36 htaccess.txt
drwxrwxr-x  7 web5_perforations web5     4096 Feb 12 16:18 images
drwxrwxr-x  5 web5_perforations web5     4096 Feb 12 16:20 img
drwxrwxr-x 10 web5_perforations web5     4096 Feb 12 16:22 includes
-rw-rw-r--  1 web5_perforations web5     1011 Feb 19 20:07 index.html.weg
-rw-rw-r--  1 web5_perforations web5     8481 Feb 22 18:52 index.php
-rw-rw-r--  1 web5_perforations web5     5216 Feb 22 18:52 index2.php
drwxrwxr-x  2 web5_perforations web5     4096 Feb 12 16:22 language
-rw-rw-r--  1 web5_perforations web5      710 Feb 12 16:36 mainbody.php
drwxrwxr-x  7 web5_perforations web5     4096 Feb 12 16:34 mambots
drwxrwxr-x  4 web5_perforations web5     4096 Feb 29 09:39 media
drwxrwxr-x  4 web5_perforations web5     4096 Feb 21 17:05 modules
drwxrwxr-x  2 web5_perforations web5     4096 Feb 12 16:34 netpbm
drwxrwxr-x  4 web5_perforations web5     4096 Feb 12 16:35 nonmambo
-rw-rw-r--  1 web5_perforations web5     4929 Feb 12 16:36 offline.php
-rw-rw-r--  1 web5_perforations web5     2474 Feb 12 16:36 offlinebar.php
-rw-rw-r--  1 web5_perforations web5      709 Feb 12 16:36 pathway.php
drwxrwxr-x  2 web5_perforations web5     4096 Feb 12 15:38 picture_library
drwxrwxr-x  2 web5_perforations web5     4096 Feb 12 15:38 plesk-stat
-rw-rw-r--  1 web5_perforations web5      286 Feb 12 16:36 robots.txt
drwxr-xr-x  2 web5_perforations web5     4096 Feb 20 04:00 stats
drwxrwxr-x 14 web5_perforations web5     4096 Feb 21 13:44 templates
drwxrwxr-x  9 web5_perforations web5     4096 Feb 12 16:35 test

w154:/var/www# ls -l web8/web/
total 12
drwxrwxr-x 2 web8_lars web8 4096 Feb 29 00:21 error
-rw-rw-r-- 1 web8_lars web8 1246 Mar  2 00:43 index.html
drwxr-xr-x 2 web8_lars web8 4096 Feb 29 04:00 stats

w154:/var/www# ls -l php-fastcgi/web5/
total 4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 114 Feb 27 21:49 php-fcgi-starter

w154:/var/www# ls -l php-fastcgi/web8/
total 4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 114 Feb 27 21:49 php-fcgi-starter

[meemu]

Originally Posted by TauTau

hm, can't see any relevant differences here (web5 works, web8 is the new one)

w154:/var/www# ls -l
total 40
drwxr-xr-x 2 root              root 4096 Feb 27 20:39 apache2-default
drwxr-xr-x 3 root              root 4096 Oct 10 00:30 localhost
drwxr-xr-x 8 root              root 4096 Feb 29 00:21 php-fastcgi
drwxr-xr-x 2 root              root 4096 Oct  9 01:39 sharedip
drwxr-xr-x 8 web3_lars         web3 4096 Feb 27 22:30 web3
drwxr-xr-x 9 web4_lars         web4 4096 Feb 27 22:13 web4
drwxr-xr-x 9 web5_perforations web5 4096 Mar  2 00:42 web5
drwxr-xr-x 8 web6_durchbruch   web6 4096 Mar  2 00:43 web6
drwxr-x--- 8 web8_lars         web8 4096 Mar  2 00:43 web8

Well here it is. web 8 is not world readable. Add the apache user to the web8 group (my patch does that) or change the permissions so the apache user can access the folder.

[TauTau]

Yeah, I found that soon afterwards... I reverted to standard php, and when it still wouldn't work, I stumbled over it Currently I'm running the suphp from a mini-howto here and it works ok so far... Maybe some day I'm fearless enough again to try fastcgi + suexec