PHP 5.2.3 and PHPsuexec

Try this after building...

mv /usr/bin/php /usr/bin/php.old

ln -s /usr/bin/php-cgi /usr/bin/php

 

PHP v5.2.3 changed the CGI binary name from 'php' to 'php-cgi' ....

For phpSuExec, you need to change the handler name from "php" to "php-cgi" in the httpd.conf

For SuPHP, you need to update the PHP binary name called from the suphp.conf file.

 

I have phpsuexec.

The only php stuff in httpd.conf that isn't comment out...

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php .php4 .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml

I changed the AddHandler from x-httpd-php to x-httpd-php-cgi and that just resulted in the php scripts being downloaded instead of ran.

 

Don't change the MIME format! You are updating the binary filename that is being called!

 

What do you change in httpd.conf to update the binary filename that is being called

root@box [/etc/httpd/conf]# grep php httpd.conf

#LoadModule php4_module libexec/libphp4.so
#LoadModule php5_module libexec/libphp5.so
#AddModule mod_php4.c
#AddModule mod_php5.c
DirectoryIndex index.html index.wml index.cgi index.shtml index.jsp index.js index.jp index.php4 index.php3 index.php index.phtml index.htm default.htm default.html home.htm
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php .php4 .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml

 

I think there is some confusion over what Spiral had stated.

Basically if you just do:

mv /usr/bin/php /usr/bin/php.old
ln -s /usr/bin/php-cgi /usr/bin/php

This should resolve the issues. No changes to httpd.conf file. No changes to suphp.conf (if you are using suPHP).

If you are using suPHP (which I don't think a lot of people are). A cleaner solution would be to edit the suphp.conf file and change:

/usr/bin/php

to

/usr/bin/php-cgi

If you are using phpsuexec, you will have to wait for cPanel to resolve this. phpsuexec depends on an Apache patch in order to work, and that patch has to be updated to reflect the php-cgi binary name instead of just php.

But again:

mv /usr/bin/php /usr/bin/php.old
ln -s /usr/bin/php-cgi /usr/bin/php

Should resolve this issue no matter what rendition of php as cgi you are using.

It should also be worth mentioning that I'm not running PHP 5.2.3 with phpsuexec on any servers, so I can't verify if these steps are completely accurate.