{"id":695,"date":"2007-10-21T19:27:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T17:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/rebuilding-suexec-with-different-options-on-ubuntu\/"},"modified":"2007-10-21T19:28:04","modified_gmt":"2007-10-21T17:28:04","slug":"rebuilding-suexec-with-different-options-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/rebuilding-suexec-with-different-options-on-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebuilding suexec with Different Options on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is for my own reference, borrowed from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.our-files.com\/?p=6\">there<\/a> and duplicated here because the original blog looks inactive and a fine candidate for deletion next time their domain or hosting will expire. No questions on this please, this is not my area of expertise at all.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Backup the current suexec. Then download stuff and go into the newly created directory:<\/p>\n<div class=\"igsh-code-box\" id=\"ig-sh-1\"><pre class=\"language-none line-numbers\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-cfasync=\"false\"><code class=\"language-none\">cd \/usr\/src\r\napt-get build-dep apache2.2-common\r\napt-get source apache2.2-common\r\ncd apache2-2.2.3\/<\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n<p>Edit the build rules and change the suexec settings:<\/p>\n<div class=\"igsh-code-box\" id=\"ig-sh-2\"><pre class=\"language-none line-numbers\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-cfasync=\"false\"><code class=\"language-none\">vi debian\/rules<\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n<p>Near the top are located the defaults, AP2_COMMON_CONFARGS. Find the references to suexec and modify. For instance:<\/p>\n<div class=\"igsh-code-box\" id=\"ig-sh-3\"><pre class=\"language-none line-numbers\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-cfasync=\"false\"><code class=\"language-none\">--with-suexec-docroot=\/home\/hosting \\<\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n<p>Increment the build number and build notes with comments telling when and why, with dch (needs devscripts) :<\/p>\n<div class=\"igsh-code-box\" id=\"ig-sh-4\"><pre class=\"language-none line-numbers\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-cfasync=\"false\"><code class=\"language-none\">dch -i<\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n<p>Then build the package :<\/p>\n<div class=\"igsh-code-box\" id=\"ig-sh-5\"><pre class=\"language-none line-numbers\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-cfasync=\"false\"><code class=\"language-none\">dpkg-buildpackage<\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n<p>Now, in \/usr\/src\/ we have all the .deb files we need to install. We dpkg -i the one we want (suexec is part of apache2.2-common and needs apache2.2-utils). All done.<\/p>\n<p>Check new suexec compile options :<\/p>\n<div class=\"igsh-code-box\" id=\"ig-sh-6\"><pre class=\"language-none line-numbers\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-cfasync=\"false\"><code class=\"language-none\">\/usr\/lib\/apache2\/suexec2 -V<\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is for my own reference, borrowed from there and duplicated here because the original blog looks inactive and a fine candidate for deletion next time their domain or hosting will expire. No questions on this please, this is not my area of expertise at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[56,3,247,248],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published","tag-apache","tag-linux","tag-suexec","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}