In this post, we will show you how to install mod_ruid2 on a CentOS 6 VPS with a DirectAdmin control panel. mod_ruid2 is a suexec module for Apache which takes advantage of POSIX.1e capabilities to increase performance and allows all requests to a domain to run as the domain owner instead of as the Apache user.
Comment out the lines starting with AliasMatch in the /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf file
~# sed -i '/AliasMatch*/ s/^/#/' /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
Build PHP without POSIX support
~# cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild ~# mkdir -p custom/ap2/ ~# cp configure/ap2/configure.php5 custom/ap2/
Open the custom/ap2/configure.php5 file and add –disable-posix
~# nano custom/ap2/configure.php5 --disable-posix
Rebuld PHP using the following command
~# cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild ~# ./build php n
Install dependencies
libcap-devel is required and has to be installed before proceeding with the mod_ruid2 intallation.
~# yum -y install libcap-devel curl
Download and build the latest version of mod-ruid2
We will use cURL to download the latest mod_ruid2 version from Sourceforge
~# curl -L http://sourceforge.net/projects/mod-ruid/files/latest/download\?source\=files | tar jx ~# cd mod_ruid2* ~# apxs -a -i -l cap -c mod_ruid2.c
Add “RMode config” and “RUidGid apache access” to the httpd.conf file
~# sed -i '/Group apache/a \\n# Mod_ruid\nRMode config\nRUidGid apache access' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Add “RUidGid webapps webapps” to the httpd-directories.conf file
sed -i '/<\/IfModule>/a \\tRUidGid webapps webapps' /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-directories.conf
Change ownership of the /var/www/html directory
chown -R webapps:webapps /var/www/html/
Restart Apache
We need to restart Apache for the changes to take effect
~# /etc/init.d/httpd configtest ~# /etc/init.d/httpd restart
That’s it! We have successfully installed mod_ruid2 on CentOS 6 with DirectAdmin.
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