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Problems with suexec/fastcgid and virtualmin

Posted by Leon Bogaert on in Linux, PHP

Since a few version of virtualmin I had some problems with checking the server configuration.

Virtualmin 3.72.gpl_webmin_error

The problem is that I have manually patched suexec and the php fcgid script is in /var/www and not /home.

I had this error for quite a while but last week I fixed it. It was quite simple. Just change this code in /usr/share/webmin/virtual-server/feature-web.pl:

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# Make sure home base is under base directory, or template CGI directory is
if ($tmpl->{'web_suexec'} && $suhome &&
!&same_file($suhome, $home_base) &&
!&is_under_directory($suhome, $home_base) &&
(!$cgibase || !&is_under_directory($suhome, $cgibase))) {
return &text('check_ewebsuexechome',
"$home_base", "$suhome");
}

return undef;
}

To:

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# Make sure home base is under base directory, or template CGI directory is
return undef;
if ($tmpl->{'web_suexec'} && $suhome &&
!&same_file($suhome, $home_base) &&
!&is_under_directory($suhome, $home_base) &&
(!$cgibase || !&is_under_directory($suhome, $cgibase))) {
return &text('check_ewebsuexechome',
"$home_base", "$suhome");
}  return undef;
}

So just add return undef; to the top of that piece of code. Then it will step out of the function before the additional check is executed.

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# Make sure home base is under base directory, or template CGI directory is
if ($tmpl->{'web_suexec'} && $suhome &&
!&same_file($suhome, $home_base) &&
!&is_under_directory($suhome, $home_base) &&
(!$cgibase || !&is_under_directory($suhome, $cgibase))) {
return &text('check_ewebsuexechome',
"$home_base", "$suhome");
}
return undef;
}

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