Disable MOD_PHP in vhosts and activate suphp - php

Question

I need to desactivate mod_php on a vhost and let it working for other vhosts, I need to disable it in order to activate suphp.
here is the vhost config :
Options +Indexes
ServerName www.native.org
ServerAlias native.org
DocumentRoot /home/user/www/native/current
ServerAdmin info#native.org
UseCanonicalName Off
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/native_access.log combined
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/native_error.log
<Directory /home/user/www/native/current>
RemoveHandler .php
AllowOverride All
Options FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
suPHP_Engine on
SuexecUserGroup user native
<IfModule mod_suphp.c>
suPHP_UserGroup user native
AddHandler x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4 .php5
suPHP_AddHandler x-httpd-php
</IfModule>
NB: mod_php is activated by default for all vhosts

Answer 1

You don't have to remove handlers, types or to turn PHP's engine off.
In your <VirtualHost ...> add the following lines:
<FilesMatch \.php$>
SetHandler None
</FilesMatch>
In this way, you will remove the handler added by /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf (or php5.conf, or whatever) which says:
#
# Cause the PHP interpreter to handle files with a .php extension.
#
<FilesMatch \.php$>
SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>
Edit: It's better also to disable PHP's engine according to suphp.conf file:
# Disable php when suphp is used, to avoid having both.
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
php_admin_flag engine off
</IfModule>
Your site will run under suPHP now. (Also, if you have installed phpMyAdmin in /usr/share/phpMyAdmin, it will work under mod_php, which is great.)
At the end, take a look of one of my VirtualHosts configuration:
<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4:80>
ServerName site.com
ServerAlias www.site.com
ServerAdmin admin#site.com
DocumentRoot /home/site/public_html
Options -Indexes
suPHP_Engine on
suPHP_UserGroup site site
suPHP_ConfigPath "/home/site/public_html"
suPHP_AddHandler x-httpd-php
AddHandler x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4 .php5
# Remove the handler added by php.conf
<FilesMatch \.php$>
SetHandler None
</FilesMatch>
# Disable php when suphp is used, to avoid having both.
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
php_admin_flag engine off
</IfModule>
ErrorLog "|cronolog /home/site/.logs/error_%Y_%m.log"
CustomLog "|cronolog /home/site/.logs/access_%Y_%m.log" combined
</VirtualHost>
Final Note:
If your phpMyAdmin located in /usr/share/phpMyAdmin is not working, add the following lines at the end of your httpd.conf or in your master VirtualHost:
<Directory /usr/share/phpMyAdmin>
<FilesMatch \.php$>
SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
php_admin_flag engine on
</IfModule>
</Directory>
For example:
<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4:80>
ServerAdmin admin#master-site.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
Options -Indexes
<Directory /usr/share/phpMyAdmin>
<FilesMatch \.php$>
SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
php_admin_flag engine on
</IfModule>
</Directory>
ErrorLog "|cronolog /var/www/.logs/error_%Y_%m.log"
CustomLog "|cronolog /var/www/.logs/access_%Y_%m.log" combined
</VirtualHost>

Answer 2

You should be able to do
<Directory /home/user/www/native/current>
RemoveHandler .php .phtml .php3 .php5
RemoveType .php .phtml .php3 .php5
php_flag engine off
AllowOverride All
Options FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>