Bug 169835

Summary:	RFE: making suexec-docroot more configurable
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Andreas Thienemann <andreas>
Component:	httpd	Assignee:	Joe Orton <jorton>
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Version:	4.0	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description Andreas Thienemann 2005-10-04 09:48:02 UTC

The suexec-docroot is currently hardcoded to /var/www during compilation, which
makes sense for "simple" webserver.
As soon as users are having virtualhosts in their homedirs, suexec cannot be
installed for these users, as /home/user/www.example.com is outside of the docroot.

Our current fix is to recompile the httpd packages with a changed docroot. It
works, but is a nuisance.

It might make a nice addition to RHEL to be able to make the suexec-docroot
configurable by either editing a /etc/sysconfig file or by adding a configure
tag to the main httpd.conf.

Comment 1 Joe Orton 2005-10-04 11:51:29 UTC

Thanks for contacting us.

It's really not safe to start having the suexec binary start reading files to
determine the configuration; it is a standalone binary for a good reason.  You
could place the user-managed vhost directories in /var/www/<vhost> instead, as
is normal practice.