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Auto fix for file permissions and ownership
Oct 22nd
Updated: 03/30/13
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suPHP and FastCGI require files and folders to have a specific set of permissions/ownership from other handlers. Without these permissions set you will see a lot of errors such as: “403 Forbidden”, “500 Internal Server Error”, or simply generic errors that commonly have the word ‘permission’ in them.
It can be very time consuming to track down and check file permissions across a whole server. Luckily, fixing this on a cPanel box can be scripted. This gives us a quick and very easy script you can wget to any cPanel server. Simply run the More >
DSO (mod_php) vs. CGI vs. suPHP vs. FastCGI
Jan 27th
# Updates: # 01/09/13 – Rewrote some parts to alleviate confusion # 02/12/12 – Added some more definitions # 02/02/12 – Link clean up # 10/06/11 – Better explanation for CGI with suEXEC
This is one of the most common topics that I see customers will ask about. As highly important as PHP handlers are, they often the least understood. They seem complicated, but its not too hard to understand. You don’t have to know that exact science of how it all works, but one should learn the basics if you want to take your website seriously. Picking the right PHP More >
