> nodata wrote: >> Good morning, >> >> I'm having a some permissions trouble with suexec running on Sarge. >> >> I have a virtualhost for a user called Bob which specifies User Bob and >> Group Bob in the /etc/apache/conf.d/bob.conf file. >> > > <snip> > >> If I switch user to bob, and run ls -la on /, /var, /var/www, >> /var/www/bob >> I can see all of the files, so why is apache running as this user not >> able >> to? >> >> > > Hiya, > > You'll probably find that all your Apache processes are running as > www-data > based on the User directive in your main httpd.conf -- and they can't read > bob's files. Only CGI scripts will be affected by the "User" directive in > a > VirtualHost. > > From: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#user > > "Special note: Use of this directive in <VirtualHost> requires a properly > configured suEXEC wrapper. When used inside a <VirtualHost> in this > manner, > only the user that CGIs are run as is affected. Non-CGI requests are still > processed with the user specified in the main User directive." > > Regards, > > Blair. > >
Ah this would explain things more - but then shouldn't running http://website/cgi-bin/test.pl work? I get the same search permissions error..
