not displaying *.php

[Death Barrel]

hey all,

sorry i am new to cpanel, hosting company threw it in for free after screwing me over lol... anyways, i've never seen this before and once again i am totally new to cpanel, used to doing things the old fashioned way...

ok heres what i get>>> when i have a file in the html dir: example> index.html it displays fine... but if i change the extention to *.php it won't display it says >>

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /torrent/index.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

so i check my apache error log and i see >>>

[Fri Aug 11 23:18:50 2006] [error] [client XX.XX.XX.XX] Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/torrent/index.php

now i have tried for the last 2 days to research this problem and one fix said to enable ExecCGI in teh apache conf file.... so i did but that only made it worse....

any help would be great, it was all working fine before cpanel was added.

thanks!
Eric

[inalto]

Hello,

seems you have phpsuexec running.
with phpsuexec php scripts are acting like cgi. Look in your .htaccess, maybe you have Options -ExecCGI.
If yes remove -ExecCGI from your htaccess.

You dont Have an htaccess, you can try creating a .htaccess with Options +ExecCGI

If this does not work maybe is because you have AllowOverride No in the httpd.conf for that dir.

Also look, you must not have 777 permissions on the php files, 644 is enought.

[Death Barrel]

ok i was able to rebuild apache w/o suEXEC, i got it working now. thanks for your time!