PHP downloading instead of executing only when in cgi-bin

PMD

• February 07, 2017 13:02

Hi, I've just started a migration between two VPS's both running WHM/cPanel. There's only one site on this server so I backed up through the user account and restored in WHM. No probs there, everything went well. Aside from a small issue where the location of perl in some scripts was wrong (rectified by a symlink), everything else was fine except for PHP causing me nightmares for what is now a whole day trying and failing to remedy this. Essentially, PHP will execute absolutely fine anywhere but the cgi-bin directory. Annoyingly, because the site is somewhat legacy and I took weird choices 10 years ago, there are a lot of PHP files in the cgi-bin folder. The worrying thing is that is actually downloads them, code 'n' all rather than executes them. The old VPS with EasyApache3 and PHP5 worked fine and there has been no change in any of the files within the home directory to cause this, so it's something specific to Apache or PHP and I can't figure it out. The new VPS started life with EasyApache4 but I also tested on another migrating from 3 to 4 and it made no difference. I have tried all the AddHandlers and AddTypes in the world within .htaccess and in the main httpd.conf (using the includes editor in WHM). I have tried enabling more than just cgi (suphp for example) in MultiPHP manager and that makes no difference. The file permissions are fine. I can execute the same 'hello world' file outside of cgi-bin but just not inside it. I am at the end of my somewhat short tether now and any help would be majorly appreciated.

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  Marius

  • February 08, 2017 06:23

  I had this error few days ago. The problem is about incompatibility. Try install packages via WHM->Easyapache 4 -> I recommend you choose default cPanel(prefork+php-fpm) and do not install other packages because you'll risk a lot of incompatibility between modules(Ex: suphp+mod_ruid2, etc). Do you have PHP-FPM installed? If yes: Go to WHM-> MultiPHP Manager and for desired domain select(check) -> activate PHP-FPM. By default PHP-FPM is Off if a PHP version is set to inherit, so must be activated by domain! Handlers does not apply to PHP-FPM!

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  PMD

  • February 08, 2017 13:05

  Thank you so much. That did it. I'm so grateful!

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  Marius

  • February 08, 2017 17:37

  I'm glad I could help you :)

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  cPanelMichael

  • February 10, 2017 15:48

  Essentially, PHP will execute absolutely fine anywhere but the cgi-bin directory. Annoyingly, because the site is somewhat legacy and I took weird choices 10 years ago, there are a lot of PHP files in the cgi-bin folder.

  
  Hello, I'm happy to see you were able to find a suitable workaround. You may also want to consider making changes in the future to ensure the PHP scripts work outside of the cgi-bin, as the cgi-bin isn't intended for PHP scripts. Thank you.

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