Hi there,
I would like to change the directory in which virtual server's home directories are stored from /home to /apps. This is so I can mount an nfs drive to /apps and store the apps home directories on that.
I do not want to mount the nfs drive to /home because this would affect some users which are not virtual servers and could create problems with accessing these users if there was a problem with mounting the nfs drive.
It seems this is entirely possible but the main problem is that suexec is configured to use the /home dir.
I have seen a number of issues on here similar to this but they are all very old and suggest manually recompiling apache2, with a build flag to set the custom suexec root dir. As also outlined nicely here (for ubuntu): http://serverfault.com/a/402426
However, it seems there is now a better way to do this, avoiding recompiling apache2, by using the apache2-suexec-custom package. Can this work with virtualmin? If so how?
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Submitted by andreychek on Wed, 03/08/2017 - 08:59 Comment #1
Howdy -- just to clarify, which distro is it that you're using there?
ubuntu 16.04
Submitted by andreychek on Thu, 03/09/2017 - 14:05 Comment #3
Okay, that should work.
I don't normally recommend that, as it's a easier to run into issues when not using /home.
However, it should indeed work, and if you do run into any issues just let us know so we can get them fixed up.
On Ubuntu/Debian, Virtualmin does indeed use the apache2-suexec-custom package.
And with that -- you can change the suexec path pretty easily by editing "/etc/apache2/suexec/www-data", and in there change the first line to be "/apps" rather than "/home".