On Aug 23, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Joshua Slive wrote:
On 8/23/07, Israel Brewster <israel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:First off, I apologize for asking a question that I know you get a lot, but I have just spent the last hour and a half beating my head against the wall and searching the internet trying to find a solution with no luck. Short version: I have an existing OpenBSD 4.0 box on which Apache (version 1.3.29) is working properly, including execution of CGI scripts. I am trying to move to a new machine with OpenBSD 4.1, so I started with a fresh OpenBSD 4.1 install, which comes with the same version of Apache as 4.0, and copied the httpd.conf file over from my old machine. After starting the web server, however, I found that it could not run any CGI scripts- always just giving me the following error: [Thu Aug 23 08:45:40 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of script headers: /cgi-bin/test-cgi[...snip...] But anyway, this problem is fairly standard and is addressed here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/cgi.html#butitsstillnotworking
As I mentioned in the first line, I was aware of that fact, and had been searching the internet for a solution and trying different things for the last hour and a half before asking for help :-)
The error means that apache is perfectly happy to launch your CGI script, but the CGI is failing in some way. The first thing to try is running the CGI from the command line: cd /path/to/cgi-bin ./test-cgi Joshua.[...snip...] The test-cgi, as well as the printenv both run fine from a terminal window.
Yep, as I also mentioned, tried that. Worked fine. I did manage to fix the problem though-turns out that the problem was with Apache being chrooted. The first line of the test script was looking for / bin/sh, which, when chrooted, Apache could not find. I thought I had checked this against my functioning box, but apparently I was looking at the wrong box or something. At any rate, un-chrooting Apache fixed the issue. Thanks for the help attempt!
----------------------------------------------- Israel Brewster Computer Support Technician Frontier Flying Service Inc. 5245 Airport Industrial Rd Fairbanks, AK 99709 (907) 450-7250 x293 -----------------------------------------------
I tried reverting to the factory default httpd.conf, with no luck. The permissions on the contents of the cgi-bin folder are as follows: ls -l /var/www/cgi-bin/ total 212 ---------- 1 root bin 99072 Mar 10 16:41 bgplg drwxr-xr-x 2 root daemon 512 Aug 23 07:59 nagios -rwxrwxrwx 1 root bin 268 Mar 10 16:32 printenv -rwxrwxrwx 1 root bin 757 Mar 10 16:32 test-cgi the cgi-bin folder itself has 755 permissions. The relevant section from the httpd.conf file is as follows: ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/" # # "@@ServerRoot@@/cgi-bin" should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased # CGI directory exists, if you have that configured. # <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options none Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> I have tried adding an "AddHandler cgi-script .cgi" directive to that block, as one webpage I found suggested, as well as changing the "Option none" to "Options ExecCGI". I did, of course, restart the server between each configuration change. I have also tried with various different CGI scripts, most of which come from a fresh install. Nothing seems to make any difference- I still get the "premature end of script headers" error. If this was linux, i'd say check the SELinux settings, but it isn't. What am I missing here? ----------------------------------------------- Israel Brewster Computer Support Technician Frontier Flying Service Inc. 5245 Airport Industrial Rd Fairbanks, AK 99709 (907) 450-7250 x293 ----------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project.See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx---------------------------------------------------------------------The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project.See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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