I've been beating my head into a wall trying to figure out why my
"hello world" cgi script won't run. It turns out that disabling
suexec (which is enabled by default in the apache package) makes the
problems vanish. Now I want to know what is causing the problem.
I skimmed through the security requirements listed at
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/suexec.html, but didn't see anything
obviously wrong with my system. Here's the relevant info :
~~ /var/log/apache/suexec.log
[2002-06-07 23:55:40]: info: (target/actual) uid: (dman/dman) gid: (dman/dman) cmd: hello.py
[2002-06-07 23:55:40]: emerg: cannot get docroot information
(/home/dman)
~~ /etc/apache/httpd.conf (the interesting parts)
UserDir public/html
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .sh .py .pl
# let me have CGI scripts
<Directory ~dman/public/html/cgi-bin/>
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
drwx--x--x 92 dman dman 4096 Jun 8 00:13 /home/dman
drwxr-xr-x 5 dman dman 4096 Apr 23 23:10 /home/dman/public
drwxr-xr-x 15 dman dman 4096 May 29 02:02 /home/dman/public/html
drwxr-xr-x 2 dman dman 4096 Jun 8 00:18 /home/dman/public/html/cgi-bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 dman dman 90 Jun 7 23:32 /home/dman/public/html/cgi-bin/hello.py
~~ hello.py
#!/usr/bin/python2.2
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n"
print "hello world"
What am I doing wrong? Should I just disable suexec and forget about it?
TIA,
-D
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