1. Document everything you do ; You or someone else would come accross the same issue sometime else and from my long experiance; if you dont document you probably would have to start over again!
2. Face the issue from the head and tackle it from the tail! . The best sysadmin practice would be [...]

A slight change in the setup and now i can see the user who is executing the scripts in my website
Before when apache intrepets a php script it calls fastcgi which inturn calls the php cgi binary.But still the php binary is executed as the calling user which in our case is the user [...]

As everyone knows Apache is the most widely used web server and it has got a 75-25 usage rate when compared to Microsoft IIS. IIS was widely used before Apache and some of the major security flaws made people to rely on Apache which is upfront in terms of Security , flexibility and Reliability. I [...]