Re: [users@httpd] Can't run cgi scripts on mounted fat partition

Peter Sykora <peter_sykora@xxxxxx> · Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:08:15 +0200

Hi Owen,
thanks for your quick reply

Can you execute the path above at the command line?

Yes I can. I also tried it under the user wwwrun.

Does the script try to write anything to the windows partition

No it is just a testscript that writes the environment variable settings 

directly to the browser.

I seem to recall that linux cannot write to certain windows file-system types. I thought it was NTFS... but maybe it is VFAT as well... Check on a linux forum.

I checked that already. Linux is not able to write to NTFS but with VFAT 

it's no problem.

The reason why I try to do the whole thing is because I want to access 

my files from Windows and Linux on the same location ...

Peter

(Keine Berechtigung ~ permission denied) 

Using the same script on my linux home cgi-directory where apache is 

installed, everything works fine.

Here are the related parts of my config file:

# Setting the document root to a directory on the fat 

partition (which 

works fine)

DocumentRoot /windows/D/home/html

# The script alias and directory settings of my home cgi-directory, 

which works fine as well

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/home/psykora/cgi-bin/"
<Directory "/home/psykora/cgi-bin/">
Options None AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

# The script alias and directory settings of the cgi directory on the 

fat partition which doesn't work

ScriptAlias /cgi-canyon/ "/windows/D/home/html/canyon_new2/cgi/"
<Directory "/windows/D/home/html/canyon_new2/cgi/">
Options None AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

I also tried some other directory options like:
- AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
- Options +ExecCGI

The fstab entry of my fat partition is:

/dev/hda5            /windows/D           vfat       

users,gid=users,umask=0000      0 0

and I have also checked the permissions of /windows/D which are
drwxrwxrwx  17 root users 32768 1970-01-01 01:00 D

So all files and directories on this partition should be 

executable as well.

I can't see a reason why apache replies with a permission 

denied. Does 

anybody have an idea.

Thanks for any hints
Peter

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