I'm trying to follow this very detailed instruction here, I simply changed from www-data user to apache user, and is using /var/www/hosts/sitename/public_html instead of /home/user/public_html

However, I spent the whole day trying to figure out why the php file content is displayed without being parsed correctly. I just cant's seem to figure this out. Below is my current config:

/etc/httpd/conf.d/fastcgi.conf

User apache
Group apache

LoadModule fastcgi_module modules/mod_fastcgi.so

# dir for IPC socket files
FastCgiIpcDir /var/run/mod_fastcgi

# wrap all fastcgi script calls in suexec
FastCgiWrapper On

# global FastCgiConfig can be overridden by FastCgiServer options in vhost config
FastCgiConfig -idle-timeout 20 -maxClassProcesses 1

# sample PHP config
# see /usr/share/doc/mod_fastcgi-2.4.6 for php-wrapper script
# don't forget to disable mod_php in /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf!
#
# to enable privilege separation, add a "SuexecUserGroup" directive
# and chown the php-wrapper script and parent directory accordingly
# see also http://www.brandonturner.net/blog/2009/07/fastcgi_with_php_opcode_cache/
#
FastCgiServer /var/www/www-data/php5-fcgi
#AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

AddHandler php-fcgi .php
Action php-fcgi /fcgi-bin/php5-fcgi

Alias /fcgi-bin/ /var/www/www-data/

#FastCgiExternalServer /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi -socket /tmp/php5-fpm.sock -pass-header Authorization
#DirectoryIndex index.php
#
<Location /fcgi-bin/>
#    Order Deny,Allow
#    Deny from All
#    Allow from env=REDIRECT_STATUS
    SetHandler fcgid-script
    Options +ExecCGI
</Location>

/etc/httpd/conf.d/vhost.conf

<VirtualHost>
                DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.shtml index.cgi

                SuexecUserGroup www.mysite.com mygroup

                Alias /fcgi-bin/ /var/www/www-data/www.mysite.com/
                DocumentRoot /var/www/hosts/mysite.com/w/w/w/www/

                <Directory /var/www/hosts/mysite.com/w/w/w/www/>
                        Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks                        
                        AllowOverride None
                        Order allow,deny
                        allow from all
                </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

PS: 1. Also, with PHP5.5, do I even need FPM or is it already included? 2. I'm using mod_fastcgi, not sure if this is the problem and it I should switch to mod_fcgid? There seems to be conflicting records on the internet considering which one is better. I have many virtual hosts running on the machine and hope to be able to provide each user with their own opcache