OS: Ubuntu 10.04 etc/suphp/suphp.conf: [global] ;Path to logfile logfile=/var/log/suphp/suphp.log ;Loglevel loglevel=info ;User Apache is running as webserver_user=www-data ;Path all scripts have to be in docroot=/home ;Path to chroot() to before executing script ;chroot=/mychroot ; Security options allow_file_group_writeable=false allow_file_others_writeable=false allow_directory_group_writeable=false allow_directory_others_writeable=false ;Check wheter script is within DOCUMENT_ROOT check_vhost_docroot=true ;Send minor error messages to browser errors_to_browser=false ;PATH environment variable env_path=/bin:/usr/bin ;Umask to set, specify in octal notation umask=0077 ; Minimum UID min_uid=100 ; Minimum GID min_gid=100 [handlers] ;Handler for php-scripts application/x-httpd-suphp="php:/usr/bin/php-cgi" ;Handler for CGI-scripts x-suphp-cgi="execute:!self" some vhost in sites-enabled: NameVirtualHost *:8080 <VirtualHost *:8080> ServerAdmin ... ServerName ... ServerAlias ... AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php suPHP_Engine on suPHP_UserGroup user user suPHP_ConfigPath "/home/user/etc" suPHP_PHPPath /usr/bin DocumentRoot /home/user/web/site.com/ ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/site.com-error_log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/site.com-access_log common <Directory /home/user/web/site.com/> Order Deny,Allow Allow from all Options +Indexes </Directory> </VirtualHost> But when I did nano /home/user/web/id.php and paste <?php system('id'); ?> in it, result I get is: uid=33(www-data) gid=33(www-data) groups=33(www-data) Have no idea what to do so I was hoping comunity could help ty.