---
title: "Virtualmin and Apache Suexec /home issue"
date: "2011-02-07"
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I just had a machine upgrade to Debian 6 after a package update - Virtualmin had a bit of a complain when it came to the suexec base directory, and all of the websites on this machine died. When setting the domains to run as mod_php, CGI or the preferred FCGId you'd get:

```
Failed to save website options : The Suexec command on your system is configured to only run scripts under #/home, but the Virtualmin base directory is /home. CGI and PHP scripts run as domain owners will not be executed.
```

Looking at their forums they suggest that the issue is a non-virtualmin based installation of Apache - further investigation required but for the meantime:

```
cd /etc/apache2/suexec
nano www-data
```

In this file remove the top line stating "/var/www" and replace with "/home". Restart apache `/etc/init.d/apache2 restart`