The problem was the group permissions: the cgi-bin and files were owned by
the root group. I changed ownership to the mitch group, and now my cgi
scripts run from a link in a web page when called with a browser. I had
created the cgi-bin as root orginally, because I thought that only the
admin could do it. Now I see that's not true, since the commonhttpd.conf
allows the owner of a public_html directory to create their own cgi-bin.
Maybe there shouldn't be a "mitch" group? Anyway, I'm just glad it works.
Thanks for the help everyone! I learned a lot about some subjects that were
just vauge to me before, ie, apache configuration files and commands. The
correct permissions were already set for cgi in the commonhttpd.conf, which
gets included into httpd.conf; so I didn't need to change anything in
there. I changed it all back to default settings.
mitch
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Oops. I made a mistake. Not sure if it matters ... but below was the actual
output on my screen from running the scripts from the command line. Last
email I had inadvertly added an extra line of space between the command
line and the start of the output.
[mitch@tcob cgi-bin]# perl -c test.cgi
test.cgi syntax OK
[mitch@tcob cgi-bin]# perl test.cgi
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
<html><head><title>Test</title></head>
<body>The test was successful.</body></html>
[mitch@tcob cgi-bin]# perl test.pl
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
<html><head><title>Test</title></head>
<body>The test was successful.</body></html>
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Yep. I did three tests. First I checked the syntax of test.cgi. It was
fine. Then I ran test.cgi and test.pl from the command line. Here is what I
saw on my screen:
[mitch@tcob cgi-bin]# perl -c test.cgi
test.cgi syntax OK
[mitch@tcob cgi-bin]# perl test.cgi
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
<html><head><title>Test</title></head>
<body>The test was successful.</body></html>
[mitch@tcob cgi-bin]# perl test.pl
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
<html><head><title>Test</title></head>
<body>The test was successful.</body></html>
mitch
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Mitch,
Are you able to execute your scripts on the command line?
Keith Lynn
Systems Administrator
School of Computer and Information Sciences
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL 36608
Phone: (334) 460-6390
Fax: (334) 460-7274
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URL: http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/~lynn/
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Here is the cgi script:
>
> #! usr/bin/perl
>
> use CGI;
>
> $query = new CGI;
>
> print $query->header;
>
> print "<html><head><title>Test</title></head>\n";
> print "<body>The test was successful.</body></html>";
>
>
>
>
>
> I also used this script before, but it didn't work either, same error:
>
> #! usr/bin/perl
>
> print"content-type: text/html\n\n";
> print "<html><head><title>Test</title></head>\n";
> print "<body>The test was successful.</body></html>";
>
>
>
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> 01/04/02 10:11 AM
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>
> Thanks, everyone, for the help so far. I'm still having problems though.
I
> made a public_html directory in my home directory and entered the
> <directory> entry for it in commonhttpd.conf, where all other such
entries
> are located. (commonhttpd.conf is included into httpd.conf with
"Include.")
> Now at least the cgi file is found when I run it -- I no longer get the
> "file not found" error. But now I get a 500 Internal Server error. Here
are
> the error messages from the httpd error log from today:
>
> [Fri Jan 4 08:32:53 2002] [error] (2)No such file or directory: exec of
> /home/mitch/www/htdocs/myscript.cgi failed
> [Fri Jan 4 08:32:53 2002] [error] [client 130.164.62.51] Premature end
of
> script headers: /home/mitch/www/htdocs/myscript.cgi
> [Fri Jan 4 09:15:43 2002] [error] [client 130.164.62.79] Directory index
> forbidden by rule: /home/mitch/public_html/cgi-bin/
> [Fri Jan 4 09:16:01 2002] [error] [client 130.164.62.79] Premature end
of
> script headers: /home/mitch/public_html/cgi-bin/test.cgi
> [Fri Jan 4 09:16:28 2002] [error] [client 130.164.62.79] Premature end
of
> script headers: /home/mitch/public_html/cgi-bin/test.cgi
> [Fri Jan 4 09:18:06 2002] [error] [client 130.164.62.79] Premature end
of
> script headers: /home/mitch/public_html/cgi-bin/test.cgi
> [Fri Jan 4 09:22:53 2002] [warn] child process 9685 still did not exit,
> sending a SIGTERM
> [Fri Jan 4 09:22:54 2002] [warn] child process 9686 still did not exit,
> sending a SIGTERM
> [Fri Jan 4 09:22:54 2002] [warn] child process 9688 still did not exit,
> sending a SIGTERM
> [Fri Jan 4 09:22:54 2002] [warn] child process 9692 still did not exit,
> sending a SIGTERM
> [Fri Jan 4 09:23:11 2002] [alert] httpd: Could not determine the
server's
> fully qualified domain name, using 130.164.62.79 for ServerName
> [Fri Jan 4 09:23:11 2002] [notice] Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.20
> (Mandrake Linux/3mdk) mod_ssl/2.8.4 OpenSSL/0.9.6b configured -- resuming
> normal operations
> [Fri Jan 4 09:23:11 2002] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper:
> /usr/sbin/suexec)
> [Fri Jan 4 09:23:51 2002] [error] [client 130.164.62.79] Premature end
of
> script headers: /home/mitch/public_html/cgi-bin/test.cgi
> [Fri Jan 4 09:33:06 2002] [error] [client 130.164.62.79] Premature end
of
> script headers: /home/mitch/public_html/cgi-bin/test.cgi
> [Fri Jan 4 09:37:06 2002] [error] [client 130.164.62.79] Premature end
of
> script headers: /home/mitch/public_html/cgi-bin/test.cgi
> [Fri Jan 4 09:38:56 2002] [error] [client 130.164.62.79] Premature end
of
> script headers: /home/mitch/public_html/cgi-bin/test.cgi
> [Fri Jan 4 09:39:37 2002] [error] [client 130.164.62.79] Premature end
of
> script headers: /home/mitch/public_html/cgi-bin/test.pl
> [Fri Jan 4 09:50:53 2002] [error] [client 130.164.62.79] Premature end
of
> script headers: /home/mitch/public_html/cgi-bin/test.cgi
>
> mitch
>
>
>
>
> Keith Lynn
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> uthal.edu> cc:
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> Subject: Re: [newbie] Is CGI
> set up for user accounts from normal
> 01/03/02 install?
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> 07:41 PM
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Mitch,
> One possible problem you might be having is that /cgi-bin is mapped
> to a certain directory with ScriptAlias.
> Suppose you wanted the user wilson to run cgi scripts in a directory
> called cgi-bin through the URL .../~wilson/cgi-bin, then you need to have
> the Directory Directive with the absolute path to that directory
>
> <Directory /home/wilson/public_html/cgi-bin>
> AddHandler cgi-script cgi
> Options +ExecCGI
> </Directory>
>
> Then make sure that /home/wilson/public_html/cgi-bin has world execute
> permission and the scripts in that directory have world execute
> permission.
> If you still have problems, let me know.
>
> Keith Lynn
> Systems Administrator
> School of Computer and Information Sciences
> University of South Alabama
> Mobile, AL 36608
> Phone: (334) 460-6390
> Fax: (334) 460-7274
> Alternate E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> URL: http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/~lynn/
>
> On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >
> > So far it's still not working. I get a "file not found" error. Is
> > "www/cis/cgi-bin" relative to what I set as DocumentRoot? In
otherwords,
> do
> > I need to include the full path to the cgi bin or just the part after
> > documentroot? Or does documentroot even have anything to with this? I
set
> > documentroot to /home/mitch/www/htdocs. If the cgi bin is in
> > /home/mitch/www/cgi-bin, what do I do in <Directory>?
> >
> > Because I have a directory structure like:
> >
> > /home/mitch/www/htdocs/myscript.html
> > /home/mitch/www/cgi-bin/myscript.cgi
> >
> > Here's what I have in my html file calling the cgi:
> >
> > <form method="post" action="../cgi-bin/myscript.cgi">
> >
> > I thought maybe trying to go up one directory ../ to get into the
cgi-bin
> > might be causing a problem, because documentroot was
> > /home/mitch/www/htdocs. I don't know, but it just seemed to be making
> > things not-so simple and straightforward. So I changed it to:
> >
> > /home/mitch/www/htdocs/myscript.html
> > /home/mitch/www/htdocs/cgi-bin/myscript.cgi
> >
> > Then I redid the permissions and the html file to say action
> > ="cgi-bin/myscript.cgi" and again as "/cgi-bin/myscript.cgi" but
neither
> > worked. I still get the "file not found" error.
> >
> > Would I get a "file not found" error because of an apache configuration
> > problem?
> >
> > mitch
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> > Keith Lynn
>
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > uthal.edu> cc:
>
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] Is
CGI
> set up for user accounts from normal
> > 01/03/02 install?
>
> > 03:49 PM
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Mitch,
> > In order to allow cgi scripts to run, you need to give them
> > permission in your httpd.conf file. Suppose you want to have scripts
> > ending in .cgi in the directory /www/cis/cgi-bin to be interpreted as
> > scripts. Then you would include the following in your httpd.conf file.
> >
> > <Directory /www/cis/cgi-bin>
> > AddHandler cgi-script cgi
> > Options +ExecCGI
> > </Directory>
> >
> > Then make sure that permissions are set (at least world execute on
> > directories and scripts), and you should be able to run scripts. If you
> > need any other help, let me know.
> >
> > Keith Lynn
> > Systems Administrator
> > School of Computer and Information Sciences
> > University of South Alabama
> > Mobile, AL 36608
> > Phone: (334) 460-6390
> > Fax: (334) 460-7274
> > Alternate E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > URL: http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/~lynn/
> >
> > On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > I have a server on an intranet. Is CGI already set up? If so, where
do
> I
> > > put my CGIs for new users? I tried to add a cgi-bin to a user's home
> > > directory, for myself, because I was worried about running CGIs as
> root,
> > if
> > > that would even happen. So, I made a cgi-bin and set the permissions,
> but
> > I
> > > get a "You don't have permission" error message. The permissions were
> set
> > > to 755, so everyone could read and execute but only I could write. I
> > > checked this over and over. Is there some reason that I can't *yet*
run
> > > CGIs other than file permissions? I tried FTPing the files as ascii
and
> I
> > > tried just writing them on the linux machine. I've also used stock,
> very
> > > easy intro scripts that just return "Hello world" to the browser. And
> > I've
> > > successfully used CGI on my personal machine hosted by professionals.
> It
> > > appears to me -- I installed Mandrake myself -- that CGI isn't set up
> > > correctly for a user account. How do I do that?
> > >
> > > Could someone either explain or point me to some place where I can
read
> > how
> > > to set up CGI for users on Mandrake Linux running Apache? Everthing I
> > find
> > > is either just reference material -- which doesn't help if you're a
> > newbie
> > > -- or how to write CGIs.
> > >
> > > mitch
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>
>
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