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24-Aug-2005

suphp and WordPress

Filed under: linux, web — jlm @ 13:14

Okay, so I now have WordPress working with suphp, which allows for the use of Unix user accounts in php scripts. Steps:

  • I made a dedicated jlmphp account, so php won’t have access to my main account.
  • The hosting server (ofb.net) runs Debian, so I installed suphp with
    apt-get install libapache-mod-suphp
  • In the Apache config, I put the lines:

    LoadModule suphp_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_suphp.so
    suPHP_Engine on

    and

    <VirtualHost *>
    ServerName php.mandelson.org
    DocumentRoot /home/jlmphp/www/data/
    </VirtualHost>

    The first set turns suphp on, the second set makes a virtual host “php.mandelson.org” with its own www directiory in jlmphp’s homedir.

  • Made a CNAME aliasing php.mandelson.org to mandelson.org, so that when you look up php.mandelson.org you get this server.
  • Changed the blog address to be http://php.mandelson.org/wordpress/
  • In the .htaccess file for jlmphp, put

    AddHandler x-httpd-php .php

    (which tells Apache to use suphp for .php files in this directory), and put in redirects from the old blog address to the new.

  • Made wp-config.php user-readable-only and change the passwords. (Which is the whole point!)

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