Topic: If php is writeable Apache won't execute - howto

[liderbug]

Apache ver: n/a (well later on Linux)

History: Php web pages were being prefixed with a base64 line by hackers. chmod 444 *.php stopped the practice.

My old hosting company was able to cause Apache NOT to execute a php file if the file was writeable. I can not find any reference as to how to do that.

Thanks
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[James Blond]

You can disable it if you only run php as module in apache. Then you might delete

in /usr/bin/

php php5 php5-cgi php-cgi


That might cause consequenses that I'm not aware of. Do it at your own risk.

[liderbug]

That would work but on my old server(hoster) php from the command line worked. But http... file.php (with 665) errors out.

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[James Blond]

??

You want to disable PHP on the webserver but it should run on the command line or what are you trying so say? or do you mean Option ExecCGI[1] ??




[1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/cgi.html

[liderbug]

No ls -l gives:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 blackfor blackfor 908 Jan 14 2011 bfnumbers.php
http://mysite.com/bfnumbers.php returns:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@blackforest-co.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
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However
-r--r--r-- 1 blackfor blackfor 908 Jan 14 2011 bfnumbers.php
and the page pops right up.