Ok, I have been looking for some help, and cannot find help anywhere.
Is anyone knowledgeable with PHPSuexec?
I have been able to figure out a problem though, but I will say what that is anyways.
I am currently on a VPS server. I recently upgraded from a shared hosting to VPS servers. I had my host uninstall all versions of php4, and install the latest stable version of php5, and asked them to compile it with Suexec. They installed 5.1.6. Now, due to PHPsuExec being enabled, users cannot use .htaccess to change php directives. Instead, they are to create php.ini files to change those directives, and place it in their directory.
Maybe I should rephrase the question.
Consider this situation. I am on a VPS server, and the only sites on the VPS will be me, and a couple friends.
Do you think their is a need for phpsuExec? (I first heard of phpsuexec 2 weeks ago, and was reading into it). But the more I read into it, the more I think that I probably don't need it. It seems, that if you are not running under Fast-CGI, then it will be slower. And the benefits of phpsuExec is mainly for shared hosting, where you are on a server shared by many other users, so security in that only you will be accessing the files, and that if you have a script running that is hogging all the resources, that you will be able to pinpoint it and take care of it.
But since it will be mainly me and a couple other friends, I am starting to feel that this is unnecessary. Would you guys agree?
I am not using phpsuexec, but yep, this feature was gone in some php 5.0.x release and yes changes only affect the local folder and not any directories under it. It had been like that when I was running php 5.0.x