Wordpress, permissions, mod-php, suphp

Hello,

On one of my sites I'm running Wordpress. It is also configured with an FTP user.
Wordpress has the ability to update files from its admin panel. But here's the problem: suPHP is much slower than Mod_PHP. Mod_PHP is much faster, but it runs everything as user www-data! So when using mod-php I have to chmod the dir to www-data:www-data and everything runs fast BUT I can't update the software and I can't login with FTP, but with Suphp the site is so slow that it actually locks down....

Guys, I need your advice on this! What should I do?

Thanks!
Mark

 

Well that's still using php-cgi and it's still too slow!

But I have solved it in a different way: by using ACL.
The webroots of these sites are set to user:group www-data:www-data with an ACL entry u:web29:rwX,g:client5:rX and it includes a default.

What I did was, I created a script to do all of this for me hourly through a cronjob. Here it is, I hope it will benefit others with the same problem:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# Fix permissions for webroots that are using mod-php and wordpress.

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/site.org/web
setfacl -bR /var/www/site.org/web
setfacl -Rm u:web29:rwX,g:client5:rX,d:u:web29:rwX,d:g:client5:rX /var/www/site.org/web

# Repeat this for all the sites that need it. Crontab it for your own convenience.
# New files will automagically inherit these permissions.

 

Just to be sure.. we are talking about Fast-CGI here?

I will try that out. I was using memcache/memcached, which one would you recommend out of the two you mentioned? Thanks for the help - to me this part of ispconfig is still a bit new.

 

Try to install apache2-mpm-itk +mod_php and configure the creation of new sites.
see http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25918 for more details

 

From top:
14023 web28 20 0 123m 53m 26m S 6.7 2.6 0:03.26 /usr/bin/php-cgi

This is what I meant with 'still using cgi' - I selected FastCGI so that's why I wanted to make sure that we are talking about the same thing.. are we?

 

Thanks Till, I have updated it to FastCGI and it does indeed work just as fine. One question remaining though: when I use mod-php and xcache, I can see that php is using xcache from the xcache admin page. However when I use FastCGI I see no web page in xcache's database. Could you help me with this so that xcache does use FastCGI-websites?

 

My problem is known on this page, too:
http://forum.lighttpd.net/topic/16734
Might there be some solution at hand for ispconfig?

 

Till, I still couldn't solve the xcache issue. Have you any idea how we can fix this?

 

Problem still there... I confirm that xcache doesn't work with php in FastCGI. Php-Mod is ok.

Any solution ?

 

It will be hard if their website is down

 

Exact same problem on the official forum : http://forum.lighttpd.net/topic/100377
answer : use Mod_PHP.....

 

Yeah, and that's no option for me - wordpress doesn't work too well then.

 

This is not the solution. Xcache must work with FastCGI.

 

By seaching on google, fastcgi should works with xcache. I think it's more a problem with ispconfig 3. Regarding this topic : http://forum.lighttpd.net/topic/100377#19774, another person has the same problem with a debian lenny + ispconfig 3 + apache.