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nodata wrote:
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..
Er, yep, as far as I can see, it should. suEXEC can be a little... finicky :)
What does /var/log/apache/suexec.log say?
Nothing :/
But the error log for this host has the "failed because search permissions are missing on a component of the path" error.
A couple of things.
The suEXEC wrapper itself does setuid() before most of the path/file checks, so that's probably not the problem. The absence of anything in the log file also indicates that Apache itself is having trouble reading things, not the suEXEC wrapper.
You might want to try loosening the read permissions on the CGI + path to the CGI, and verify (by perhaps touching a file in /tmp) that it is running as the user you intended it to. Then try tightening the read permissions on the CGI itself, and then along the path to it.
The other thing to check is that your scripts are physically located under suEXEC's DOC_ROOT (/var/www on Sarge, I think).
Regards,
Blair.
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