Hosting with suPHP support

Soldato
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Hi, recently I was experiencing some problems with some cached files on my hosting being assigned to user 99 which meant I couldn't delete the folders/files.

My account was moved to a new server running suPHP. I just wanted to check what differences to expect and what people's recommendations are either way. Is it better having suPHP enabled to make sure I own all the files rather than other user 99s?

I discovered I had to use php.ini files to set php include paths etc but could still use htaccess as normal after adding the php version handler.

I wanted to find out a bit more about security on both environments and the pros and cons of each. Do most of the pros here run with this module enabled?

Thanks in advance.
 
I don't think i have mod_security but maybe I could enable it in the php.ini file. Will check out some more info about it.

I was just curious as to which server setup was best. I take it most people who know what they are doing run suPHP or suexec or something similar?

Is there anyway you can overcome the ownership problems without these enabled?

Thanks
 
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