Perl's "idiot's guide to solving cgi problems" didn't have any helpful hints for my problem. Although it did say something about running the server as a user which could write in all the cgi directories, which didn't seem right. Currently Apache runs as www-data/www-data which is enough access to read & execute to all the server & home directories.
Alright, this is really weird. After adding those lines it ran fine and now it runs w/o those lines.. maybe my permissions were wrong, but I'm sure they were 755 root/root. hmm.. Anyhow, now it only runs in the /cgi-bin and not the user's directories, so the problem is probably suEXEC since it controls cgi execution in user dirs, right? ... what a mess. Thanks Paul On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > > > I can run other cgi scripts, so that can't be the problem... > > > > You didn't tell us, if you have accepted our advice to take a look at > perl's "idiot's guide to solving cgi problems". > > Anyway, change the script like this: > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > open (OUT, ">/tmp/cgitest") or die "can't open cgitest file"; > print OUT "CGI Script started\n"; > close OUT; > > [rest of the script] > > If you don't get a file /tmp/cgitest, then your script doesn't get > executed. Then it is most likely a permission problem. > > Ciao, > Martin > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
