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We use suPHP and whenever our php packages are updated, a new php.conf file is dropped into the apache config folder (/etc/httpd/conf.d) and this causes 500 error's as it configures the handler for php scripts to be the standard php interpreter (AddHandler php5-script .php) instead of suphp. When this happens we have to manually delete php.conf and restart Apache.

In addition the PHP package also changes the ownership of /var/lib/php/sessions to root:apache and we need it to be root:suphpgroup.

Any ideas on how we can avoid these two issues caused by every PHP update?

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Create a blank /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf and leave it there. The RPM packages will not overwrite it, since it's changed from the original distributed file; instead they'll create it as php.conf.rpmnew which Apache will ignore, and you can go clean up later at your leisure.

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Thanks, great solution, I should have remembered that! Any idea about the permission issue on the sessions folder? – Michelle Dec 6 '12 at 17:36
There's no great solution for that. The best idea I can come up with is to put your sessions somewhere else. – Michael Hampton Dec 6 '12 at 17:38
Thanks works for me, thanks Michael. – Michelle Dec 6 '12 at 18:36

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