After FastCGI install via EasyApache, all PHP files return 500 internal server error

[sdanf]

I have a cPanel VPS server running CentOS 5 with WHM.

This was a brand new installation with no custom changes made. I noticed that fcgi was not available for use with PHP so I recompiled Apache and PHP using EasyApache, and chose to enable fastcgi. After the process was done, everything seemed to look ok. fcgi is now available when configuring PHP in WHM.

When I choose fcgi as the handler for PHP, all PHP scripts return a 500 internal server error. If I switch back to cgi, suphp, or dso, then everything works.

Why does fastcgi not work?

I checked the log files and can't find any entries at all related to this. There is nothing related in /var/logs and nothing in error_log for the specific domain.

[cPanelTristan]

The error logs for Apache are in /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log location. Have you checked these when loading the pages in a browser?

[sdanf]

thanks. In there was:

Premature end of script headers: license.php

All that I had in license.php was phpinfo(); to test it. I found that when accessing the site via IP address and home dir such as /http://108.11.11.11/~myhomedir then it fails but when accessing via the domain name it worked after I played around with permissions.

I stil see this in the logs:


[2011-06-07 21:29:49]: uid: (500/eadip) gid: (500/eadip) cmd: php5
[2011-06-07 21:29:49]: command not in docroot (/usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php5)