Re: CGI Error

[Paul Miller <paul@3dillusion.com>]

Perl's "idiot's guide to solving cgi problems" didn't have any helpful
hints for my problem.  Although it did say something about running the
server as a user which could write in all the cgi directories, which
didn't seem right.  Currently Apache runs as www-data/www-data which is
enough access to read & execute to all the server & home directories.

Alright, this is really weird.  After adding those lines it ran fine and
now it runs w/o those lines..  maybe my permissions were wrong, but I'm
sure they were 755 root/root.  hmm..  Anyhow, now it only runs in the
/cgi-bin and not the user's directories, so the problem is probably suEXEC
since it controls cgi execution in user dirs, right? ... what a mess. 

Thanks
Paul

On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
> 
> > I can run other cgi scripts, so that can't be the problem...
> > 
> 
> You didn't tell us, if you have accepted our advice to take a look at
> perl's "idiot's guide to solving cgi problems".
> 
> Anyway, change the script like this:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> open (OUT, ">/tmp/cgitest") or die "can't open cgitest file";
> print OUT "CGI Script started\n";
> close OUT;
> 
> [rest of the script]
> 
> If you don't get a file /tmp/cgitest, then your script doesn't get
> executed. Then it is most likely a permission problem.
> 
> Ciao,
> 	Martin
> 
> 
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