the way I handled this was to add the following to my TEST.PL
# override root blocks local *Apache::TestConfig::default_user = sub { return 'root' }; local *Apache::TestConfig::default_group = sub { return 'root' };
why do you need to run tests as root?
well, it was a web services interface, and some of the services required root permission to manipulate certain backend elements.
You still have the root permissions. it's only the server that starts with non-root perms. why do you needed that override?
# and that nasty chown stuff local *Apache::TestRun::adjust_t_perms = sub { 1 };
root can still work with files owned by 'nobody', but of course...
I forget why I did that. I think it was to enable files added by root-run tests to be removed by normal users, but I'm not sure - it was something like that :)
but that's exactly what adjust_t_perms does. Otherwise normal user can't create/write/delete them.
let me repeat what the problem is:
cd /root ; mkdir t ; chmod 0777 t ; sudo -u 'nobody' perl -le 'print -r "t" && -w _ && -x _ ? "OK" : "NOK"'
if you can make it return 'OK', than the problem is solved.
yeah, ok, I get it now.
well, perhaps the /tmp copy isn't so bad (I misread it :)
I shouldn't have mentioned this idea, so may be someone will have a better one ;)
the issue that we will have, though, is for people whose tests need to get back to the base directory, ../. so, I'd also suggest some function or package global that can be used in place of ../, making
my $lib = catfile($Apache::Test::basedir, 'lib');
equivalent to (from t/)
my $lib= catfile('../', 'lib');
and
my $lib = catfile('/src/Apache-Foo', 'lib');
I don't think we need to chdir to /tmp, I think all we need is to tell Apache that DocRoot is /tmp/whatever/t. you still run from the normal dir. Or are you saying that you want the DocRoot to be the original t/?
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