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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 … Continue reading →