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

[Darcy Brodie]

bogi wrote:
> check selinux ..... if it is running disable and see ...
> Szemir
>
>    
Szemir
     During the installation, I disabled selinux - but for good measure 
I double checked and it is still disabled

Darcy
> On December 29, 2009 12:36:57 am Shawn wrote:
>    
>> 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
>>>>>            
>>