How rebuild httpd to set suexec AP_DOC_ROOT to /home

The default suexec AP_DOC_ROOT path that is provided by rpm repositories are set to /var/www , while virtualmin uses /home/ as its docroot folder. So one needs to use the custom build httpd package provided by virtualmin which is kind of outdated, OR compile apache by themselves and correct the docroot path.

I use httpd24u package provided by IUS-repo which is up-to-date and the followings are the gist I use to recompile this package and set its suexec docroot to /home:


# Install dependencies
yum install mock brotli-devel systemd-devel xmlto rpm-build epel-rpm-macros yum-utils -y
yum group install "Development Tools" -y
useradd -s /sbin/nologin mockbuild
useradd rpm
su rpm
cd ~


# Get source
yumdownloader --source httpd24u
yum-builddep httpd24u

# Centos 8 source
# dnf download --source httpd
#wget http://vault.centos.org/8.2.2004/AppStream/Source/SPackages/httpd-2.4.37-21.module_el8.2.0+382+15b0afa8.src.rpm

rpm2cpio httpd*.src.rpm | cpio -civ '*.spec'

rpm -i httpd*.src.rpm

sed -i httpd*.spec -e "s,--with-suexec-docroot=%{docroot},--with-suexec-docroot=/home,"

rpmbuild -bb httpd*.spec

# extract suexec from our rebuilt rpm
mkdir ./usr/sbin/
rpm2cpio ./rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/httpd24u*.rpm | cpio -civ './usr/sbin/suexec'

# run as root:
cp ./usr/sbin/suexec /usr/sbin/suexec
chown root.apache /usr/sbin/suexec
chmod u+s /usr/sbin/suexec
ls -l /usr/sbin/suexec
chattr +ia /usr/sbin/suexec