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What I have ended up doing was downloading the apache source, httpd-2.2.11.tar.gz. Ubuntu 8.04 uses 2.2.08 but that probably doesn't matter.
I compiled it with: ./configure --enable-suexec --with-suexec-docroot=/var/www --with-suexec-userdir=httpdocs --with-suexec-caller=www-data --with-suexec-logfile=/var/log/apache2/suexec.log
Then I did a make, and used the copy in support/suexec. Things seem to be working great now!
Maybe Virtualmin should package the copy of the suexec from newer version of Ubuntu, apache2-suexec-custom. It looks like that one is customizable with a config file. That way us users could change the config and still be able to uprade Virtualmin.
So I know this is an old thread, but I was just working on getting my maibox down to zero again, and I thought it work mentioning that the easiest path to getting suexec docroot set to /var/www would be to install the stock apache2-suexec from Ubuntu. ;-)
As for suexec-custom, yes, I agree. I've switched to it in the Debian 5.0 version of the install script. It's definitely nicer to go that route.
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