[clug-talk] Apache web server with cgi / perl scipts

[Shawn]

I can't speak much to Perl specifics with Apache - I've never done that. 
  But, permissions can be tricky.

If you do have a permissions problem, you *should* be getting a 403 
error, not a 500.  But on the off chance we are still dealing with 
permissions, check to make sure the web service account has permission 
on the parent directory AND that directory's parent.  You *may* need to 
make sure the service account has some permission right back to root, 
though that is rare.

A 500 error suggests to me that the script itself is faulty.  Perhaps 
there is something about the runtime environment that is different? 
Paths come to mind for that - the PATH for the ROOT user, or regular 
user can be different than the PATH for a service account.  Or perhaps 
there is another environment variable needed, but not set for the 
service account?

I've been bit by both these situations before and they were both a pain 
to diagnose...

Not sure if I helped any, but maybe... :)

Shawn

Darcy Brodie wrote:
>>> 755 should give full access to the owner, read and execute to group and
>>> others, so even if the APACHE user does not have ownership, it should
>>> fall under the "other"  permissions