CentOS - Jan 2009 - fcgi/suexec problem

I have a number of vhosts configured with SuexecUserGroup
to run the scripts with limited privileges and the dept. web-site on one
of them. The problem is the webmaster can't read online context help
which comes with the cms the site is using. Most help files (>2K) have
*.php.html extension. *.php and *.html scripts both work as I suspect
they should, but when it comes to *.php.html suexec starts complaining
(most regular files are 0660 and the webmaster is a member of the
group):

directory is writable by others
file is writable by others 
file has no execute permission

and finally after fixing all the above

/var/log/httpd/suexec.log:
uid: (10003/web6_www) gid: (10006/10006) cmd: *.php.html

/var/www/web6/log/error.log:
Premature end of script headers: *.php.html 

Anybody has a clue how to fix this either in vhost config or any other
way around?

Thanks

<VirtualHost 172.31.0.31:80>
	SuexecUserGroup web6_www web6
	ServerName www.example.com:80
	ServerAdmin webmaster at example.com
	DocumentRoot /var/www/web6/web
	ServerAlias example.com
	DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.php5 index.php4
index.php3 index.shtml index.cgi index.pl index.jsp Default.htm
default.htm

	ErrorLog /var/www/web6/log/error.log
	AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4 .php5
	<Directory /var/www/web6/web>
		Options +ExecCGI
		AddHandler fcgid-script .php .php3 .php4 .php5
		FCGIWrapper "/var/www/web6/php/php-cgi -c /var/www/web6/php" .php

	</Directory>
	Alias /error/ "/var/www/web6/web/error/"
	AliasMatch ^/~([^/]+)(/(.*))? /var/www/web6/user/$1/web/$3
	AliasMatch ^/users/([^/]+)(/(.*))? /var/www/web6/user/$1/web/$3
</VirtualHost>

> I have a number of vhosts configured with SuexecUserGroup
> to run the scripts with limited privileges and the dept. web-site on one
> of them. The problem is the webmaster can't read online context help
> which comes with the cms the site is using. Most help files (>2K) have
> *.php.html extension. *.php and *.html scripts both work as I suspect
> they should, but when it comes to *.php.html suexec starts complaining
> (most regular files are 0660 and the webmaster is a member of the
> group):
> 
> directory is writable by others
> file is writable by others 
> file has no execute permission
> 
> and finally after fixing all the above
> 
> /var/log/httpd/suexec.log:
> uid: (10003/web6_www) gid: (10006/10006) cmd: *.php.html
> 
> /var/www/web6/log/error.log:
> Premature end of script headers: *.php.html 
After all it turned out to be quite an easy fix. Add

AddHandler default-handler .html

to vhost config and read "Files with Multiple Extensions"
section in apache manual:

Care should be taken when a file with multiple extensions gets
associated with both a MIME-type and a handler...

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