A customer added a subdomain in cPanel, which they wanted to redirect to another website. When they use the Redirect feature in cPanel to add the redirect, they received an error, as follows:
Subdomain Redirection
foo.example.com is currently being redirected to: unchanged(Apache detected an error in the Rewrite config.
Syntax error on line 1 of /home/example/public_html/.htaccess.SS4E3unJ7jwRQDXYxJE8UyGKYLlOL_aC:
Invalid command 'suPHP_ConfigPath', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
Please try again.) .
The first line of their .htaccess has:
suPHP_ConfigPath /home/example/public_html/
That line is there because the customer has their own custom php.ini, and this line tells Apache to use the php.ini in the public_html directory for all subdirectories, too (otherwise the customer would need to have separate php.ini files for every subdirectory that needs overrides).
SOLUTION:
I opened a ticket with cPanel, to see if this was a bug or if we were doing something wrong. Turns out we were doing it wrong.
Here's the solution... need to wrap the suPHP_ConfigPath directive in an ifModule....
- Scott
Subdomain Redirection
foo.example.com is currently being redirected to: unchanged(Apache detected an error in the Rewrite config.
Syntax error on line 1 of /home/example/public_html/.htaccess.SS4E3unJ7jwRQDXYxJE8UyGKYLlOL_aC:
Invalid command 'suPHP_ConfigPath', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
Please try again.) .
The first line of their .htaccess has:
suPHP_ConfigPath /home/example/public_html/
That line is there because the customer has their own custom php.ini, and this line tells Apache to use the php.ini in the public_html directory for all subdirectories, too (otherwise the customer would need to have separate php.ini files for every subdirectory that needs overrides).
SOLUTION:
I opened a ticket with cPanel, to see if this was a bug or if we were doing something wrong. Turns out we were doing it wrong.
Here's the solution... need to wrap the suPHP_ConfigPath directive in an ifModule....I hope this helps someone else in the future.
- Scott
