[lug] CGI and APACHE 1.3.9 on RH 6.1

[MauroMedia]

Thanks Calvin, I'll give it a shot today.

Shannon

On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Calvin Dodge wrote:

> MauroMedia wrote:
> > 
> > I looked through the httpd.conf file and uncommented everything that had
> > to do with cgi or perl.
> > I've looked in the /var/log/httpd/ and have read the suexec_log file.
> > It keeps coming up with the some thing.
> >  uid: (user/user) gid: (user/user) cmd: webc.cgi
> >  command not in docroot (/home/user/cgi-bin/webc.cgi)
> > Does anybody know what this means and do you have ideas on how to fix it.
> 
> Well, during my poking at at for 4 hours last night (part of that time on the
> phone with Shannon), I determined that suexec wanted the nscom cgi-bin
> directory to be within the /home/httpd/html directory.  Unfortunately, webc.cgi
> doesn't work when you put it there - it just maxes out CPU usage.
> 
> We tried putting a tilde in front of the user name in the User directive (as
> suggested in the official docs for suexec), but the httpsd program didn't like
> that, saying "~nscom" was not a legitimate user.
> 
> I have one more thing for you to try.
> 
> I recompiled suexec again, with "docroot" set to "/home/nscom".  You could try
> downloading that to see if it will allow webc.cgi to work.  If you want to do
> this, then:
> 
> 1) Log in to your system as root
> 2) Anonymous ftp to 12.10.239.3 (my work computer) - cd to /pub - get suexec -
> exit ftp
> 3) cd /usr/sbin
> 4) mv suexec suexec.old       (keep the original one on hand)
> 5) cp ~/suexec .              (assuming you did ftp from root's home directory)
> 6) chmod u+x suexec           (make it executable)
> 7) chmod +s suexec            (make suexec setuid)
> 8) /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpsd reload  (make apache reload)
> 
> Now try the web link to see if it works.
> 
> Let me know if this works for you, OK?
> 
> Calvin
> 
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