fastcgi / internal 500's after php upgrade

[NoAgendas]

I get internal 500 errors on one particular server after going from php 4.4.2 to 4.4.4 (all modules the same except newer php version)

apache log:

Premature end of script headers

(all php based sites)

What is the fix for this?

Another problem with fastcgi:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart: httpd not running, trying to start
Syntax error on line 193 of /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf:
FastCgiIpcDir /tmp/fcgi_ipc: access for server (uid -1, gid -1) failed: write not allowed

phpsuexec enabled / centos 4.3 / cpanel 10x stable

I ran the below as well, didn't fix it.

/scripts/chownpublichtmls
find /home -perm 755 -type d
find /home -perm 755 -type f
find /home -perm 755 -exec chmod 755 {} \;

The odd part is I have two other servers 100% identcial literally (o/s, cpanel, modules, etc) and it upgraded fine.

Modules:

Expires Module
Raise FD_SETSIZE to 16384 (System Wide)
Prevent Users from reading other webroots Frontpage Module

Raise HARD_SERVER_LIMIT

Php Module Version 4.4.4

Bc Math
Calendar Support
Curl (Version 7.15.3)
Curl SSL Support (Version 2.8.28)
Dom XSLT
Exif
Flash
FTP
GD (Version 2.0.15)
GetText
Iconv (experimental)
Imap Module (Version 2004g)
Mb String
Mcrypt (Version 2.5.7)
Mhash (Version 0.8.18)
Magic Quotes
MM Session Module (Version 1.3.1)
Mysql Module
SNMP
Openssl Support
Discard Path
PDFlib
Pear
Postgresql (will break 7.2.x or earlier, please make sure you have 7.3.x or later installed) Pspell Module Sockets Use System Mysql Track Vars Freetype Support Zip Zlib PHP suEXEC Support Rewrite Module SSL Module (Version 2.8.28) suEXEC Module

[Solokron]

I am having this same issue. It appears to be related to php suexec. As soon as it is disabled everything works great. We have been using php suexec for quite some time with no problems. I have checked .htaccess files, ownership, php permissions etc and they are all fine. These sites works great until the update to PHP 4.4.4 from 4.4.2. Nothing else in the easyapache config was changed.

[JaCE]

try a

httpd configtest

see if that will output your real problem. i know w/ mine i get alot of errors bout * w/ ports but ive had those for years w/ out a issue.

good luck

[NoAgendas]

httpd configtest shows no errors

Anyone else know about this?

[Solokron]

I have the same issue to no resolve.

http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?t=56783

httpd configtest shows no errors

Anyone else know about this?

[NightStorm]

Same problem here. I had Michael from cPanel on the server last night trying to figure out what was wrong, and he came up empty. We knew there was something wrong, and I figured out what was causing it, but we could not figure out why.
I ended up rolling back to 4.4.3.

[Spiral]

I don't think it has anything to do with PHP ....

I have machines all over the place that are going down with the same problem
with Cpanel tonight and none of them have had any updates or changes
to PHP lately and none of them are running phpsuexec or suphp.

It looks more like a file / directory permission problem in the latest cpanel update

[Curious Too]

The latest cpanel update added the following to my httpd.conf file:

<IfModule mod_suphp.c>
suPHP_Engine on
suPHP_ConfigPath /opt/suphp_php_bin
suPHP_AddHandler x-httpd-php
<Directory /home*/*/public_html>
suPHP_AddHandler x-httpd-php
</Directory>
AddHandler x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4 .phtml
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .php3 .php4
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_suphp.c>
AddHandler x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4 .phtml
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .php3 .php4
</IfModule>
<VirtualHost *>

This was a /scripts/upcp Release update, not easyapache. It killed php on the server. After hunting this down and removing it php was re-enabled. I don't quite understand why it would cause so much trouble. I don't have mod_suphp or phpsuexec installed.

[NoAgendas]

That's not true in my case. I get premature script header errors only when upgrading to php 4.4.3 or 4.4.4

[rachweb]

That's not true in my case. I get premature script header errors only when upgrading to php 4.4.3 or 4.4.4

If you are using the new easyapache (edge), then you must checked the follow options under php:

enable cgi
enable-cgi-force-redirect

[NoAgendas]

I do not understand. Is this in httpd.conf? Where? I'm using whm apache update, release version of cpanel

[rachweb]

I do not understand. Is this in httpd.conf? Where? I'm using whm apache update, release version of cpanel

When you run easyapache (edge)

[NoAgendas]

That means I have to upgrade cpanel to edge?

Isn't there a better way than that?

[rachweb]

That means I have to upgrade cpanel to edge?

Isn't there a better way than that?

The easyapache on release/stable/current is installing php as cli version. There are howtos on the internet how you can change this to cgi version.

The easyapache on edge has the options for cgi version and suphp option. But the httpd.conf is not finished yet for the new easyapache. See bugzilla http://bugzilla.cpanel.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4526 and http://bugzilla.cpanel.net/show_bug.cgi?id=2299 for more information.

Suphp/fastcgi requires cgi version to work correctly