Apache not allowing me to enter folders belonging to other users

Question

I am trying to set up PHP sessions for suPHP (see here). I need to have my php validation file owned by the user so that when suPHP kicks in, it will do so for the correct u

Answer 1

I can't find any official link for this, but according to this site:

All Files & Directories MUST be owned by your username, and not "nobody" or some other name/number. If it is not owned by you, suPHP will refuse to run the script and produce an "Internal Server Error 500".

I can understand files, but I don't see the need for directories to belong to you. I have found one patch online (see here), however, I don't know if it works or not as I have not tested it yet.

EDIT: There is a way to allow users to access scripts outside of their docroot (via suPHP_GlobalDocRoot). I can't get it to work for me, Apache claims it is a syntax error. In any case, even if it did work, It would still require at least execute access 0111 (and possibly also read 0555) on all the directories all the way up to /.

Therefore, I am pretty confident there is absolutely no solution to my problem. I am therefor accepting this as the answer. I will select another answer if someone manages to provide one.