Secure apache with php
Julien Cigar
jcigar at ulb.ac.be
Thu Jul 9 11:16:00 UTC 2009
What I do is running PHP in FastCGI mode (with something like x-cache)
with a dedicated user for each webapp for which I have a dedicated
script, for example :
=========
jcigar at bccm-it ~ % ls -l /usr/local/www/apache22/cgi-bin
(...)
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-scar www-scar 202 Oct 27 2008
scar-php-wrapper.fcgi*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-lwatch www-lwatch 202 Apr 24 12:05
sfa-php-wrapper.fcgi*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-tapir www-tapir 202 Oct 27 2008
tapir-php-wrapper.fcgi*
(...)
=========
each .fcgi contain something like :
=========
jcigar at bccm-it ~ %
cat /usr/local/www/apache22/cgi-bin/scar-php-wrapper.fcgi
#!/bin/sh
#PHPRC="/path/to/php.ini"
#export PHPRC
PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=3
export PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN
PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=10000
export PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS
exec /usr/local/bin/php-cgi -b 127.0.0.1:5009
=========
you can control how much children have to be fork(), the number of
maximum requests per process before it gets killed and re-launched
(usefull if a webapp leaks memory), etc
Then in your Apache config you put something like :
=========
FastCgiExternalServer /usr/local/www/apache22/cgi-bin/scar-php-wrapper.fcgi -host 127.0.0.1:5009 -idle-timeout 1800
<Location /cgi-bin/scar-php-wrapper.fcgi>
SetHandler fastcgi-script
</Location>
<Directory /usr/local/www/apache22/data/scarmarbin>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AddHandler php-fastcgi .php
Action php-fastcgi /cgi-bin/scar-php-wrapper.fcgi
</Directory>
=========
hope it helps,
best regards,
Julien
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 12:22 +0200, Nicolas Letellier wrote:
> Le Thu, 9 Jul 2009 13:18:39 +0300,
> "Reko Turja" <reko.turja at liukuma.net> a écrit :
>
> > > I want to secure my Apache/PHP environment...
> >
> > Full suhosin, both patch and mod for the PHP. IIRC suhosin patch is
> > optional in PHP port and the mod can be installed via ports.
> > (http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/index.html)
> >
> > Apache environment and binaries set up in a jail.
> >
> > > Which Apache version do you advice?
> >
> > I reckon these days 2.2 would be the best in regards of future
> > upgrades and development.
> >
> > -Reko
> >
> Thanks. I already use suhosin patch in mod_php.
>
> I have few users on this machine, each use a separate directory
> (/var/www/user). I do not want to make a jail for each one.
>
> That's why mpm-itk seems to be good (instead of safe_mode /
> open_basedir).
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
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Julien Cigar
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Mail: jcigar at ulb.ac.be
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