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How To Set Up suPHP With PHP4 And PHP5 (HowtoForge)

[Posted June 13, 2006 by ris]

HowtoForge shows how to install and use suPHP with PHP4 and PHP5. "suPHP is a tool for executing PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners instead of the Apache user. With the help of suPHP you can also have PHP4 and PHP5 installed at the same time which I will describe at the end of this article."

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NIH?

Posted Jun 14, 2006 10:38 UTC (Wed) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link]

Great, so the PHP guys reinvented suexec. Another great innovation like "not having to declare your variables"

NIH?

Posted Jun 14, 2006 16:54 UTC (Wed) by kpower (subscriber, #37136) [Link]

To my knowledge, suPHP is not developed by the PHP project, but of course I may be incorrect with that.

suPHP does more than suExec does. For example, suExec would require every single PHP script to have the she-bang line at the top of the file. suPHP obviates that requirement.