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Re: apache: no permission to access netsaint cgi's?



On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 04:21:47PM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote:
> I'm trying to get netsaint running. I've got:
> 
> 1. a standard apache install from the latest binary (unstable) deb.
> 
> 2. a netsaint install from the latest netsaint binary (unstable) debs,
> including netsaint-plugins and netsaint-plugins-extra.
> 
> I didn't make changes to these installations. I installed apache in
> order to use netsaint, and then I installed netsaint and its plugins.
> 
> The message I get from apache when I try to use netsaint is:
> 
> "Forbidden
> You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/netsaint/config.cgi [or
> some other .cgi]  on this server."
> 
> I've read through the netsaint documentation, and so far as I can tell,
> the .deb installation script makes all the right changes to
> /etc/apache/httpd.conf. I've tried re-editing httpd.conf to make the
> changes exactly as the netsaint documentation suggests (e.g. using an
> .htaccess file in the cgi directory instead of putting those commands
> in httpd.conf), but no luck. In any case, right now I've got perfectly
> clean installactions of both apache and the netsaint debs.

What changes does it make to httpd.conf?

What are the permissions on the directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin/netsaint,
and on each cgi?

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