mod_suphp 0.6.3 enforces some additional (but unnecessary from a security point of view) checks about directory ownership which can not be disabled at runtime. E.g. if you have several web sites using virtual hosts below /var/www (e.g. /var/www/foo/shop, /var/www/bar/gallery) suphp enforces that all directories below /var/www either belong to the root user or to the user the called php script should be run as. Issue description upstream: http://lists.marsching.com/pipermail/suphp/2008-April/001812.html Debian bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477646 Several people talked about writing a patch, although so far no code was posted. Maybe the patch could be applied for EPEL in order to restore the old behavior.
EPEL-4 has reached end of life and is no longer supported. Please retest your bug against EPEL-5 or EPEL-6 and re-open if the bug persists in the packages available in those releases, or file a new bug. See: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/epel-announce/2012-February/000015.html