I have had a running problem with permissions with Apache. With some recent testing I think that I have narrowed the problem. I have run the command 'service httpd configtest' and the result was 'Syntax OK'. Any attempt to execute a script in the cgi-bin directory fails with an error that I don't have permission. I have definitely setup my cgi-bin directory permissions properly (the directory is drwxr-xr-w, the files are rwxr-xr-x). The directory is owned by root/root as are the script files. On fedora, apache runs as apache/apache. In my httpd.conf file I have defined the ScriptAlias as /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/". The Directory section lists the Options as Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Includes, Order is allow, deny and Allow from all. This is all correct and *SHOULD* work (to the best of my knowledge). I tried executing a non-existent script. It failed with a 'script not found' error. OK, that is good. I then re-named another test script to that name and repeated the process. It failed with the permissions violation. I then changed the location of the cgi-bin directory to my home directory, both the ScriptAlias directive and the Directory section. I stopped and re-started Apache. When I tried to execute the non-existent script, I got a permission error rather than a file not found error. I had *NOT* copied the non-existent test script so I knew that it wasn't there. Here is the error message when I tried to execute the non-existent script in the cgi-bin directory under my home directory: [Thu Aug 27 21:17:12 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /cgi-bin/test.pl denied Result: I believe that *SOMEHOW/SOMEWHERE* the /cgi-bin/ directive is set with a default Options directive that is not allowing me to execute scripts, but I can't find how or where this is happening. Any suggestions or alternatives would be *GREATLY* appreciated. TIA, Chuck Crisler --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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