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The usecpphp File

/var/cpanel/usecpphp, when it exists, causes cpsrvd to use a non-system PHP provided by cPanel. You may want to do this if the version of PHP that you have built for Apache does not have all of the features required to run inside of cpsrvd.

This cPanel-provided PHP binary exists on the system as 1 of the 2 following files:

php-cgi is preferred over php if both are available and executable.

This particular PHP binary contains all of the necessary options to run inside of cpsrvd. However, if you experience linking issues or require additional features in the PHP binary that cpsrvd uses, you will need to build an additional local PHP binary. You can do this by running the following script:

This script uses the EasyApache framework to build a PHP configuration that will work with cpsrvd. This PHP binary will exist as 1 of the following 2 files:

php-cgi is preferred over php if both are available and executable.

However, if /var/cpanel/usecpphp does not exist, 1 of the the following 2 PHP binaries will be used:

Reference: http://www.cpanel.net/

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