--- author: email: mail@petermolnar.net image: https://petermolnar.net/favicon.jpg name: Peter Molnar url: https://petermolnar.net copies: - http://web.archive.org/web/20111005145532/http://petermolnar.eu:80/sysadmin-blog/installing-apache2-mpm-itk-on-a-virtualmin-based-ubuntu-8-04 lang: en published: '2010-03-01T14:43:15+00:00' redirect: - installing-apache2-mpm-itk-on-a-virtualmin-based-server summary: A brief writing on installing apache-mpm-itk on Ubuntu 8.04 server. tags: - server title: Installing apache2-mpm-itk on a Virtualmin based Ubuntu 8.04 --- For a long time, I've been a fan of Virtualmin[^1]. Stable, quite secure, and really easy to use - of course, for a sysadmin, but it can be handy enough for those of willing to learn it. While I only hosted my friends and well-known customers, I had no intention increase security over the defaults of virtualmin. A week ago, I had to install a server for hosting, with old, insecure sites, and for not too friendly, utterly unknown people, so the need came for a more secure solution. One of my college advised suphp[^2]. It was really easy to install under Virtualmin, no errors. But suphp was getting slow for my taste. The other problem with it is that opcode cacheing APC[^3], eAccelerator[^4], Xcache[^5]) cannot be used with it, because it work just like CGI. So, I started to look for a solution, and luckily, I came across with Stuart Herbert's Blog[^6], and with the post of apache mpm-itk[^7]. The solution was in my hand, Virtualmin running on Ubuntu, itk is is package, so: ``` {.bash} apt-get install apache2-mpm-itk ``` And there came the errors: ``` {.bash} The following packages have unmet dependencies: apache2-mpm-itk: Depends: apache2.2-common (= 2.2.8-1ubuntu0.14) but 2.2.8-10vm is to be installed E: Broken packages ``` How did that package, out of ubuntu, even get on my server? I started to search for 2.2.8-10vm package of apache , and I've found it in the install script of virtualmin. I seems, that because of suexec is default enabled in Virtualmin, it needs a modified version of suexec module for apache, to use /home as root for suexec. That clearly wouldn't need a full apache, but I think, thats a lot more easy compared to recompiling for the distro's apache. Ok. Remove apache. ``` {.bash} apt-get remove apache2.2-common ``` ``` {.bash} Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libneon27 irb1.8 libsasl2 clamav webmin-virtualmin-awstats libmail-spf-perl clamav-freshclam awstats dovecot-imapd libdb4.6-dev libdbd-pg-perl libsocket6-perl libsqlite3-dev rdoc ri liberror-perl libnetaddr-ip-perl clamav-base subversion postgresql-client-8.3 libclamav5 spamassassin libapr1-dev libapache-ruby1.8 libsvn1 spamc clamav-testfiles dovecot-pop3d webmin-virtualmin-mailman webmin-virtualmin-htpasswd libgmp3c2 scponly webmin-security-updates libpg-perl irb clamav-daemon clamav-docs libnet-ip-perl libnet-dns-perl postgresql rdoc1.8 procmail-wrapper webalizer webmin-virtual-server-theme webmin-virtualmin-dav uuid-dev libgeoip1 libpq-dev postgresql-client-common libhtml-tree-perl usermin-virtual-server-theme libwww-perl libdigest-hmac-perl libversion-perl libaprutil1-dev libreadline-ruby1.8 postgresql-common dovecot-common postgresql-8.3 webmin-virtualmin-svn libsys-hostname-long-perl ri1.8 libdigest-sha1-perl Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-threaded-dev apache2.2-common libapache2-mod-fcgid libapache2-mod-php5 libapache2-mod-ruby libapache2-svn mailman virtualmin-base 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 to remove and 11 not upgraded. After this operation, 51.8MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? ``` Oh. So if I remove apache, I remove virtualmin, and that's for sure, I don't want. At last, I finally found a solution: I have to get the original ubuntu package, install (technically downgrade the current apache) it, and then I can install mpm-itk without removing virtualmin. What we need: These could be needed too: If you used suphp: Get them, install them with `dpkg -i *.deb` and install apache2-mpm-itk. Voliá. Of course, you'll need to add the user directives to all virtualhost, but at Server Templates, you can insert it already. For example, add this to Virtualmin Server Templates: ``` {.bash} AssignUserId ${USER} ${USER} ``` [^1]: [^2]: [^3]: [^4]: [^5]: [^6]: [^7]: