suPHP Causes 500 Error on info.php files

[drewrowland]

I am using suPHP as my handler, however when I create a file with:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

I always get a 500 error. If I use FCGI it works fine, however i'd prefer to use suPHP. Any ideas?

 

[quietFinn]

Do you create that file as root?
If so, do you change the owner of the file?

Also you could check Apache's error log:
/usr/local/apache/logs/error_log
to see the actual error.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

It's always a good idea to check the Apache error log (/usr/local/apache/logs/error_log) when you receive a "500" error message on your website. It's likely the file is not owned by the account username, or is not using 0644 permissions.

Thank you.

 

[drewrowland]

Hello

It's always a good idea to check the Apache error log (/usr/local/apache/logs/error_log) when you receive a "500" error message on your website. It's likely the file is not owned by the account username, or is not using 0644 permissions.

Thank you.

This is what I am getting:

[Tue Oct 22 16:04:16 2013] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing restart
[Tue Oct 22 16:04:16 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.25 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.25 OpenSSL/1.0.0-fips mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue Oct 22 16:06:23 2013] [error] [client 174.70.101.172] SoftException in Application.cpp:357: UID of script "/home/puresimp/public_html/info.php" is smaller than min_uid
[Tue Oct 22 16:06:23 2013] [error] [client 174.70.101.172] Premature end of script headers: info.php
[Tue Oct 22 16:06:23 2013] [error] [client 174.70.101.172] File does not exist: /home/puresimp/public_html/500.shtml
[Tue Oct 22 16:06:27 2013] [error] [client 174.70.101.172] SoftException in Application.cpp:357: UID of script "/home/puresimp/public_html/info.php" is smaller than min_uid
[Tue Oct 22 16:06:27 2013] [error] [client 174.70.101.172] Premature end of script headers: info.php
[Tue Oct 22 16:06:27 2013] [error] [client 174.70.101.172] File does not exist: /home/puresimp/public_html/500.shtml

 

[drewrowland]

So I ran this:

chown puresimp:puresimp -R /home/puresimp/public_html

now i'm getting a 403 instead of a 500. Checked permissions and that seems to be okay.

 

[drewrowland]

Just chmod to 755 instead of 750 and it works.

 

[quietFinn]

Just chmod to 755 instead of 750 and it works.

chmod what?


This:

[Tue Oct 22 16:06:27 2013] [error] [client 174.70.101.172] SoftException in Application.cpp:357: UID of script "/home/puresimp/public_html/info.php" is smaller than min_uid

tells that info.php was owned by root.

 

[cPanelMichael]

So I ran this:

chown puresimp:puresimp -R /home/puresimp/public_html

now i'm getting a 403 instead of a 500. Checked permissions and that seems to be okay.

It's not a good idea to recursively change ownership on all files in the public_html directory. You should have simply adjusted ownership on the individual file. You will likely need to correct ownership of the public_html directory to:

user:nobody

Thank you.