httpd refuses to start due to conf error (suexecUserGroup)

[boredtechie]

So I noticed httpd has not been running on my backup server for a LONG time. When I tried to start it, I got:

Oct 20 00:10:18 athena.domain.com httpd[4108]: AH00526: Syntax error on line 14 of /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-hostname.conf:
Oct 20 00:10:18 athena.domain.com httpd[4108]: SuexecUserGroup not allowed in <Directory> context
Oct 20 00:10:18 athena.domain.com systemd[1]: httpd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

The conf file shows:

SetEnvIfNoCase ^Authorization$ "(.+)" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1
<Directory /var/www/html>
<FilesMatch "\.(inc|php[0-9]*|phtml|phps)$">
        <IfVersion = /^2.4.6[012]$/>
                ProxyFCGISetEnvIf "true" SCRIPT_FILENAME "%{unescape:%{SCRIPT_FILENAME}}"
        </IfVersion>
        AddHandler "proxy:unix:/usr/local/php81/sockets/webapps.sock|fcgi://localhost" .inc .php .php5 .php81 .phtml
</FilesMatch>
        Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch +IncludesNoExec -Indexes
        AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Indexes Limit Options=Includes,IncludesNOEXEC,Indexes,ExecCGI,MultiViews,SymLinksIfOwnerMatch,None
        AllowMethods reset

        Require all granted
        SuexecUserGroup webapps webapps
        <IfModule mod_lsapi.c>
                lsapi_user_group webapps webapps
                php_admin_value session.save_path /var/www/tmp
                php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /var/www/tmp
        </IfModule>
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/html/phpMyAdmin/log>
        Require all denied
</Directory>

So it seems it does not like the location of SuexecUserGroup. I looked, and mod-lsapi.c does not appear to be loaded. How did this configuration error happen? I've never manually changed this file. Suggestions on how to correct?

 

[zEitEr]

Hello,

What OS version do you run? What DA version is used there?

 

[boredtechie]

Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS.

Couldn't figure out the version, so I dug into the logs. Seems httpd started going down 10/16 after "DirectAdmin has been updated to v1.687 with warnings"

The warnings shows:
"/usr/local/directadmin/scripts/update.sh:
Another instance of custombuild (PID 828943) is holding the lock on "/usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/.custombuild.lock", exiting"

Before that, freshclam seemed to fail constantly. After that update freshclam was happy but httpd started failing.

I'm guessing something was in use and the server failed to update correctly?

 

[zEitEr]

Will it fix the issue?

da update
da build apache
da build rewrite_confs

 

[boredtechie]

ah ha. httpd seems happy now. I think that did the trick. Thank!