I seem to have a permission problem with apache. I am running FC9 and apache 2.2.11, mod_perl 2.0.4 and perl/V5.10.0. I am trying to work with apache/perl/mason/mySQL but continually encounter permission failures. Apache runs under user/group apache/apache (specified in the httpd.conf file and verified using the ps command). The document root is /var/www/html, which is owned by root (I don't understand this, I would think it would be apache/apache). My cgi-bin directory (/var/www/cgi-bin) was owned by root/root at first. I entered the env.pl script from example 1-5, pg 10 in the Practical mod-perl book. I saved the file to /var/www/cgi-bin, changed owner to apache, chmod 700, re-started apache and tried to access http://localhost/cgi-bin/env.pl and failed with a permission error. I changed the cgi-bin directory to apache/apache (user/group) and the env.pl script also. I re-started apache. It still fails with a permission error. I suspect that if I changed the env.pl file to root/root then it would work, but I don't want to do that. I have had several other errors similar to this that I have worked around, but would really like to understand this permission thing and get it fixed once and for all.
My system does have a user apache/apache, but there isn't a home directory. How do most people configure a development server? I try to avoid using the root login for security reasons. However, all of the apache files are owned by root, so I maintain private versions of them and use sudo to copy changes back to the appropriate directory. I haven't figured out how to handle perl scripts that I enter. All help is greatly appreciated. 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-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
