How to install and configure suphp easily

IF you are using CentOS follow these methods

Make sure you add these repository on CentOS 

   For 32 -Bit wget i686 http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.i686.rpm

For 64-Bot  x86_64 http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

Next import the key

rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt

Verify and Install the Key

rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.*.rpm 

rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.*.rpm

Then install suphp using yum

yum install suphp

Now edit /etc/suphp.conf

[global]

logfile=/var/log/httpd/suphp_log

loglevel=info

webserver_user=apache

docroot=/var/www:${HOME}/public_html

env_path=/bin:/usr/bin

umask=0022

min_uid=500

min_gid=48

; Security options

allow_file_group_writeable=false

allow_file_others_writeable=false

allow_directory_group_writeable=false

allow_directory_others_writeable=false

;Check wheter script is within DOCUMENT_ROOT

check_vhost_docroot=false

;Send minor error messages to browser

errors_to_browser=false

[handlers]

;Handler for php-scripts

x-httpd-php="php:/usr/bin/php-cgi"

;Handler for CGI-scripts

x-suphp-cgi="execute:!self"

Now edit  the file /etc/httpd/conf.d/suphp.conf

suPHP_Engine on

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

Now edit the file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Comment  line #UserDir disable

Uncomment line UserDir public_html 

Once these configurations are done restart your apache

service httpd restart

Now your apache server is configured you using suphp.

Folders works under the permission chmod 755 and files under chmod 644

Sample Folder structure 

/var/www/html/testweb/public_html/index.html

testweb    should be chmod 711

public_html should  chmod 755

Hosting files should be kept  under public_html under permission 755 for folders and 644 for files 

 http://ipaddress~username will deploy the website