LSWS installed but serves Apache test page instead of my site

[Psalmist]

Installed LSWS on a dedicated server running Centos 6.3 with Plesk 11.

Set port offset to 2000. Can reach [mydomain]:7080 no problem but [mydomain]:2080 shows an Apache test page (instead of my site), and the following error gets logged (in the LSWS web console log):

owner of file does not match owner of vhost, path [/var/www/vhosts/[mydomain]/httpdocs/index.php], access denied.

The owner of the file index.php is apache.

Is there a simple fix for that?

 

[Psalmist]

P.S. Also for what it's worth, I have not yet rebuilt php to use all the same config parameters that it is using under apache (there are a lot and the docs say to remove some that are apache-specific or whatever and I don't know how to determine which ones should be removed). But I'm assuming that the error message above isn't because of php configuration, but just in case I'm mentioning that also.

P.S. Again: oddly, I can't log into Horde webmail for my domain now since installing LSWS, even though LSWS is running on another port -- don't know if that's just a coincidence. I get the login page but it just basically refreshes when I try to log in.

 

[NiteWave]

lsws webadmin7080)
Server->General->Using Apache Configuration File
what's your current settings

 

[Psalmist]

Using Apache Configuration File
Load Apache Configuration Yes
Auto Reload On Changes use Apache binary wrapper
Apache Binary Path /usr/sbin/httpd
Apache Configuration File /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Apache Port Offset 2000
Apache IP Offset 0
Apache Handled Content Not Set
Ignore Apache Modules mod_php5,sapi_apache2,python,fcgid
Just In Time Configuration Not Set
PHP suEXEC No
PHP suEXEC Max Conn 10
Enable FrontPage Extension Not Set
Apache Environment Not Set



Apache Style Configurations
Apache Style configurations Not Set

 

[Psalmist]

And regarding the original error message "owner of file does not match owner of vhost, path [/var/www/vhosts/[mydomain]/httpdocs/index.php], access denied.", how can I find out the "owner of vhost"?

 

[Psalmist]

Okay perhaps the problem is simply permissions? Again the error message says the owner of the file index.php does not match the owner of vhost. So here are some details regarding file ownership and related info.


LSWS is running under owner apache

the file:

/var/www/vhosts/[mydomain]/httpdocs/index.php owner apache, group apache

now peel back for vhost related permissions:

/var/www/vhosts/[mydomain]/httpdocs owner root, group apache

/var/www/vhosts/[mydomain] owner root, group root



And if this matters, there are a few *.include files under /var/www/vhosts/[mydomain]/conf with owner root, group apache.


Also if it matters, there is no .htaccess file in my /var/www/vhosts/[mydomain]/httpdocs directory.

 

[NiteWave]

not sure what's happened exactly
but can you check
lsws webadmin->Server->Security->Force Strict Ownership
if it's Yes, try to set it to No

 

[Psalmist]

Nitewave: yes it was set to force strict ownership, so I set that to no, and now there's progress! Though still not there yet.

Well now LSWS is serving my static html pages, whereas before it wouldn't serve any of my pages. But it still won't serve the main index.php or any php pages. Now instead of the apache test page I get nothing (when I go to mydomain:2080).

So maybe now the issue is php configuration? I was advised to rebuild php under LSWS with the same config options presently used with apache. I haven't done that yet simply because there are a lot of config options and I'm supposed to omit the ones that are apache specific or whatever and I don't really know how to distinguish.

But at least there's progress. And I just now compared first byte time for a static html page: LSWS: .216s, Apache: .293s. Almost 0.1s difference, which is significant!

 

[NiteWave]

So maybe now the issue is php configuration? I was advised to rebuild php under LSWS with the same config options presently used with apache. I haven't done that yet simply because there are a lot of config options and I'm supposed to omit the ones that are apache specific or whatever and I don't really know how to distinguish.

you may need rebuild lsphp5 many times to get familiar with it.

you can start build it with just one options -- for example, --with-mysql=mysqlnd(if it's php 5.3.x), then build out your first lsphp5.
you can set the 1st target: have youdomain:2080/phpinfo.php working.

 

[NiteWave]

any progress ?

build php is graphical UI through Webadmin->Actions->Compile PHP, it's actually very easy once you get familiar with it.

 

[Psalmist]

any progress ?

build php is graphical UI through Webadmin->Actions->Compile PHP, it's actually very easy once you get familiar with it.

Thanks for following up. I haven't rebuilt PHP yet but for sure that's the problem. I looked in the php error_log file and found this:

Call to undefined function mysqli_init()

 

[Psalmist]

Here are all the config options on my php running under apache (as shown under "configure command" in the phpinfo() output):

'./configure' '--build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--target=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--cache-file=../config.cache' '--with-libdir=lib64' '--with-config-file-path=/etc' '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php.d' '--disable-debug' '--with-pic' '--disable-rpath' '--without-pear' '--with-bz2' '--with-exec-dir=/usr/bin' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-xpm-dir=/usr' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--without-gdbm' '--with-gettext' '--with-gmp' '--with-iconv' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--with-openssl' '--with-pcre-regex=/usr' '--with-zlib' '--with-layout=GNU' '--enable-exif' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-sysvsem' '--enable-sysvshm' '--enable-sysvmsg' '--with-kerberos' '--enable-ucd-snmp-hack' '--enable-shmop' '--enable-calendar' '--without-sqlite' '--with-libxml-dir=/usr' '--enable-xml' '--with-system-tzdata' '--with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs' '--without-mysql' '--without-gd' '--disable-dom' '--disable-dba' '--without-unixODBC' '--disable-pdo' '--disable-xmlreader' '--disable-xmlwriter' '--without-sqlite3' '--disable-phar' '--disable-fileinfo' '--disable-json' '--without-pspell' '--disable-wddx' '--without-curl' '--disable-posix' '--disable-sysvmsg' '--disable-sysvshm' '--disable-sysvsem'

Should I just use the same options for the rebuild of PHP under LSWS? Also the configure command for the default LSWS PHP has more options than my PHP under Apache. Should I simply replace it all with the above, or merge the two???

ALSO...... under additional ini files parsed, in my current PHP under apache, it says:

/etc/php.d/00-ioncube-loader.ini, /etc/php.d/axcache.ini, /etc/php.d/curl.ini, /etc/php.d/dom.ini, /etc/php.d/fileinfo.ini, /etc/php.d/gd.ini, /etc/php.d/imap.ini, /etc/php.d/json.ini, /etc/php.d/mbstring.ini, /etc/php.d/mysql.ini, /etc/php.d/mysqli.ini, /etc/php.d/pdo.ini, /etc/php.d/pdo_mysql.ini, /etc/php.d/pdo_sqlite.ini, /etc/php.d/phar.ini, /etc/php.d/sqlite3.ini, /etc/php.d/wddx.ini, /etc/php.d/xmlreader.ini, /etc/php.d/xmlwriter.ini, /etc/php.d/xsl.ini, /etc/php.d/zend_extensions_psa.ini, /etc/php.d/zip.ini

I suppose I should make sure those are includes as well, when I rebuild PHP under LSWS? And how do I do include those?

Also I see there are other included ini files under the default LSWS PHP. Should I include those as well, in my rebuild?

I'm sorry that it's not so straightforward to me.

 

[NiteWave]

>And how do I do include those?
keep this option '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php.d'

while I have no much experience on plesk, I'd suggest
1)delete some path related options, like
--bindir=/usr/bin, --infodir=/usr/share/info, etc,
but replace --prefix=/usr with --prefix=/usr/local/lsws/lsphp5
2)it looks only this option
--with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs
is specific to apache. replace it with --with-litespeed
all other options are common
3)build minimum php, it'll improve the php performance.
for shared hosting, since it may hosts any kind of php scripts, so a huge php binary which include almost all php module is necessary. for your server which dedicate a vBulletin forum, minimum php is better.

here's my suggestion to start up your php build:
'./configure' '--prefix=/usr/local/lsws/lsphp5' '--with-libdir=lib64' '--with-config-file-path=/etc' '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php.d' '--with-freetype-dir' '--with-png-dir' '--with-xpm-dir' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--with-jpeg-dir' '--with-mysql=mysqlnd' '--with-mysqli=mysqlnd' '--with-gd' --with-litespeed

when there are error messages which show missed php functions, can add needed options and rebuild lsphp again.

this wiki https://www.litespeedtech.com/support/wiki/doku.php/litespeed_wiki:php:lsapi-troubleshooting
should be very helpful when build lsphp.

 

[Psalmist]

Nitewave thanks for all your help.

I tried to rebuilt PHP from the web console with the config options you suggested, and here is the result:

**MAIN_STATUS** retrieved from /usr/local/lsws/phpbuild/buildphp_1387260628.5.progress
Start building PHP 5.3.27 with LSAPI
Configuring PHP build (2-3 minutes)
**ERROR** Could not configure PHP build

 

[Psalmist]

and the detailed log:

**LOG_DETAIL** retrieved from /usr/local/lsws/phpbuild/buildphp_1387260628.5.log

==============================================
Start building PHP 5.3.27 with LSAPI
==============================================
Tue Dec 17 01:13:11 EST 2013

Changing to build directory /usr/local/lsws/phpbuild/php-5.3.27
Configuring PHP build (2-3 minutes)
./configure '--prefix=/usr/local/lsws/lsphp5' '--with-libdir=lib64' '--with-config-file-path=/etc' '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php.d' '--with-freetype-dir' '--with-png-dir' '--with-xpm-dir' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--with-jpeg-dir' '--with-mysql=mysqlnd' '--with-mysqli=mysqlnd' '--with-gd' '--with-litespeed'
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for Cygwin environment... no
checking for mingw32 environment... no
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for icc... no
checking for suncc... no
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for AIX... no
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for system library directory... lib64
checking whether to enable runpaths... yes
checking if compiler supports -R... no
checking if compiler supports -Wl,-rpath,... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking for bison... bison -y
checking for bison version... 2.4.1 (ok)
checking for re2c... no
configure: warning: You will need re2c 0.13.4 or later if you want to regenerate PHP parsers.
checking whether to enable computed goto gcc extension with re2c... no
checking whether to force non-PIC code in shared modules... no
checking whether /dev/urandom exists... yes
checking for pthreads_cflags... -pthread
checking for pthreads_lib...

Configuring SAPI modules
checking for AOLserver support... no
checking for Apache 1.x module support via DSO through APXS... no
checking for Apache 1.x module support... no
checking whether to enable Apache charset compatibility option... no
checking for Apache 2.0 filter-module support via DSO through APXS... no
checking for Apache 2.0 handler-module support via DSO through APXS... no
checking for Apache 1.x (hooks) module support via DSO through APXS... no
checking for Apache 1.x (hooks) module support... no
checking whether to enable Apache charset compatibility option... no
checking for Caudium support... no
checking for CLI build... yes
checking for Continuity support... no
checking for embedded SAPI library support... no
checking for FPM build... no
checking for Zeus ISAPI support... no
checking for LiteSpeed support... yes
checking for Milter support... no
checking for NSAPI support... no
checking for PHTTPD support... no
checking for Pi3Web support... no
checking whether Roxen module is build using ZTS... no
checking for Roxen/Pike support...
checking for thttpd... no
checking for TUX... no
checking for webjames... no
checking for chosen SAPI module... litespeed

Running system checks
checking for sendmail... /usr/sbin/sendmail
checking whether system uses EBCDIC... no
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking whether writing to stdout works... This is the test message -- yes
checking for socket... yes
checking for socketpair... yes
checking for htonl... yes
checking for gethostname... yes
checking for gethostbyaddr... yes
checking for yp_get_default_domain... no
checking for __yp_get_default_domain... no
checking for yp_get_default_domain in -lnsl... yes
checking for dlopen... no
checking for __dlopen... no
checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
checking for sin in -lm... yes
checking for inet_aton... yes
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes
checking for opendir in -ldir... no
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for dirent.h... yes
checking for ApplicationServices/ApplicationServices.h... no
checking for sys/param.h... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for netinet/in.h... yes
checking for alloca.h... yes
checking for arpa/inet.h... yes
checking for arpa/nameser.h... yes
checking for assert.h... yes

 

[Psalmist]

checking for crypt.h... yes
checking for dns.h... no
checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking for grp.h... yes
checking for ieeefp.h... no
checking for langinfo.h... yes
checking for limits.h... yes
checking for locale.h... yes
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checking for netdb.h... yes
checking for pwd.h... yes
checking for resolv.h... yes
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checking for string.h... yes
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checking for utime.h... yes
checking for sys/utsname.h... yes
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checking for assert.h... (cached) yes
checking for fopencookie... yes
checking for broken getcwd... no
checking for broken libc stdio... yes
checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h
checking for tm_zone in struct tm... yes
checking for missing declarations of reentrant functions... done
checking for fclose declaration... ok
checking for tm_gmtoff in struct tm... yes
checking for struct flock... yes
checking for socklen_t... yes
checking size of size_t... 8
checking size of long long... 8
checking size of long long int... 8
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checking size of int... 4
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checking for st_blksize in struct stat... yes
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checking for uid_t in sys/types.h... yes
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checking for field sa_len in struct sockaddr... no
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checking for crypt... no
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checking for getpwuid_r... yes
checking for grantpt... yes
checking for inet_ntoa... yes
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checking for link... yes
checking for localtime_r... yes
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checking for random... yes
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checking for shutdown... yes
checking for sin... yes
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checking for std_syslog... no
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checking whether utime accepts a null argument... yes
checking for working alloca.h... (cached) yes
checking for alloca... yes
checking for declared timezone... yes
checking for type of reentrant time-related functions... POSIX
checking for readdir_r... yes
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checking for in_addr_t... yes
checking for crypt_r... no

General settings
checking whether to include gcov symbols... no
checking whether to include debugging symbols... no
checking layout of installed files... PHP
checking path to configuration file... /etc
checking where to scan for configuration files... /etc/php.d
checking whether to enable safe mode by default... no
checking for safe mode exec dir... /usr/local/php/bin
checking whether to enable PHP's own SIGCHLD handler... no
checking whether to enable magic quotes by default... no
checking whether to explicitly link against libgcc... no
checking whether to enable short tags by default... yes
checking whether to enable dmalloc... no
checking whether to enable IPv6 support... yes
checking how big to make fd sets... using system default

Configuring extensions
checking size of long... (cached) 8
checking size of int... (cached) 4
checking for int32_t... yes
checking for uint32_t... yes
checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes
checking for inttypes.h... (cached) yes
checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for strtoll... yes
checking for atoll... yes
checking for strftime... (cached) yes
checking which regex library to use... php
checking whether to enable LIBXML support... yes
checking libxml2 install dir... no
checking for xml2-config path...
configure: error: xml2-config not found. Please check your libxml2 installation.
**ERROR** Could not configure PHP build
Copyright © 2002-2013. LiteSpeed Technologies, Inc.

 

[Psalmist]

By the way, is it intentional that you changed --with-freetype-dir=/usr (in my original apache php config) to --with-freetype-dir (no value set)? Also you changed --with-png-dir=/usr to --with-png-dir (again no value set)?

 

[NiteWave]

>configure: error: xml2-config not found. Please check your libxml2 installation.
please refer
https://www.litespeedtech.com/support/wiki/doku.php/litespeed_wiki:php:lsapi-troubleshooting
search libxml2

#yum install libxml2-devel
will fix this error

By the way, is it intentional that you changed --with-freetype-dir=/usr (in my original apache php config) to --with-freetype-dir (no value set)? Also you changed --with-png-dir=/usr to --with-png-dir (again no value set)?

yes, I used to build lsphp in this way. while I've not dig into it what's the exact difference.

 

[Psalmist]

>configure: error: xml2-config not found. Please check your libxml2 installation.
please refer
https://www.litespeedtech.com/support/wiki/doku.php/litespeed_wiki:php:lsapi-troubleshooting
search libxml2

#yum install libxml2-devel
will fix this error

Thanks Nitewave, but shouldn't it be:

yum install libxml2-devel.x86_64

Aren't all OS's 64-bit now? I assume mine is. I got this output from the command uname -a :

Linux [mydomain] 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64


Please confirm. Thanks!

 

[NiteWave]

looks it's automatic

#yum search libxml2-devel
...
libxml2-devel.i686 : Libraries, includes, etc. to develop XML and HTML applications
libxml2-devel.x86_64 : Libraries, includes, etc. to develop XML and HTML applications
...

actually no libxml2-devel
but on 64 bit platform, when
#yum install libxml2-devel
it selects libxml2-devel.x86_64 automatically

if want to install 32 bit library, need specify .i686 explicitly
#yum install libxml2-devel.i686