/home is not owned by "XXXXX" error after apache recompile

[noimad1]

I was just working on a server, recompiling apache, and all of a sudden we started getting premature end of script headers on all sites on the server with php.

When I started looking through the logs I found errors like this:

/home is not owned by "thisuser" (where thisuser is whatever user the script is trying to run for).

in the /etc/httpd/logs/error_log

So I'm assuming this is a mod_suphp issue, so I'm removing that now.

However, has anyone seen this problem before? I mean /home shouldn't be owned by any users right?

 

[noimad1]

Hmm...it was for sure mod_suphp...anyone had problems like this recently?

 

[jdlightsey]

All directories leading from the PHP script to / need to be owned by the user executing the script or the root account. Is the /home directory owned by some account other than root?

 

[noimad1]

All directories leading from the PHP script to / need to be owned by the user executing the script or the root account. Is the /home directory owned by some account other than root?

Ahh....ok, i'm dumb. the root folder was owned by a user for some reason. Not sure why. I changed it to root and that solved the issue.

Thanks,
Damion