PHP files not executing

Question

I'm currently in the process of moving a Wordpress and Drupal website from a hostgator account to a VPS purchased by the client. The VPS has "WHM vps" installed.

I've had a whole lot of problems with this for such a simple task (such as the provider having deprecated configuration options in the my.cnf file causing MySQL to not startup correctly, and having to import a ridiculously large database from Drupal causing all sorts of problems).

But the most recent problem I've run into is the site simply not executing and just returning an Error 500. PHP is installed, but I can't find the PHP5_Module in the Apache Modules, instead there is "suphp_module" which is a shared module. PHP Error Reporting is switched on, as is error reporting in the .htdocs file.

If I add AddType application/x-httpd-php .php to the mime type it just causes the PHP files to download upon being loaded.

I'm honestly running out of ideas here, is it because php is not correctly installed, do I have to reinstall php5?

EDIT: Added the Apache Logs, not sure if the first line has anything to do with it however.

SoftException in Application.cpp:357: UID of script "/home/creative/public_html/index.php" is smaller than min_uid
Premature end of script headers: index.php

Answer 1

You have to assign the php to other owner and group as it is probably assigned to root:root that isn't secure, so the system prevent the execution

You can assign the webserver user and group that is likely to be apache if you're running httpd