In order to get suPHP to run you’ll need to edit the config file, which is by default stored in `/etc/suphp/suphp.conf`
If you’re getting the error
LookupException in API_Linux.cpp:98: Could not lookup username “wwwrun”
it means specifically that you probably have not uncommented the line `webserver_user` in that config file. If you’re on an Ubuntu server you will probably set that line to `www-data` but on other systems it perhaps needs to be set to `apache` or `nobody`.
You can view your list of users by using the command `cat /etc/passwd`, which will give you several lines in this format:
www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/bin/sh
If you’re on Ubuntu you should see the line above, which shows the entry for the user `www-data` which has a user id and group id of `33` (the first two numbers).
If you see that then you should probably change your `suphp.conf` file to have the `webserver_user` set to `www-data` and also you should change the `Minimum UID` and `Minimum GID` to the matching numbers, probably `33` and `33`…
webserver_user=www-data
; Minimum UID
min_uid=33
; Minimum GID
min_gid=33
A decent guide for setting up suPHP on Ubuntu 11 can be found at http://websoftserbia.com/en/ubuntu/66-install-suphp-on-ubuntu-11-04.html
I would recommend walking through that guide first, so you know what you’re doing, but I’ll also give you an example of a configured `suphp.conf` file:
[global]
;Path to logfile
logfile=/var/log/suphp.log
;Loglevel
loglevel=info
;User Apache is running as
webserver_user=www-data
;Path all scripts have to be in
;docroot=/var/www:${HOME}/public_html
;Security options
allow_file_group_writeable=true
allow_file_others_writeable=false
allow_directory_group_writeable=true
allow_directory_others_writeable=false
;Check wheter script is within DOCUMENT_ROOT
; !! only change this to FALSE if your site files are outside of the standard directories
; !! specified above in the docroot declaration. or change it for debugging but
; !! dont forget to change it back! :)
check_vhost_docroot=false
;Send minor error messages to browser
errors_to_browser=false
;PATH environment variable
env_path=/bin:/usr/bin
;Umask to set, specify in octal notation
umask=0077
; Minimum UID
min_uid=33
; Minimum GID
min_gid=33
[handlers]
;Handler for php-scripts
x-httpd-php=php:/usr/bin/php5-cgi
;Handler for CGI-scripts
x-suphp-cgi=execute:!self
;Path to chroot() to before executing script
;chroot=/mychroot
