Hi there, I'm trying to set up gitweb. As part of this, I'm trying to make Apache execute the gitweb.cgi as user the 'git' (UID 1002) using suEXEC.
To achieve this, I've: - installed the apache2-suexec-custom package - added /etc/apache2/suexec/git containing: /srv/h1 # i.e., document root is /srv/h1 and userdirs are not allowed. - installed the gitweb.cgi in /srv/h1 - created a <VirtualHost> config in /etc/apache2/sites-available/h1 like this: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName h1.my.domain SuexecUserGroup git git DocumentRoot /srv/h1 ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/h1.error.log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/h1.access.log combined <Directory /srv/h1> Options ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch AllowOverride All order allow,deny Allow from all AddHandler cgi-script cgi DirectoryIndex gitweb.cgi </Directory> </VirtualHost> The idea is that Apache executes the gitweb.cgi as user 'git' because it's instructed to by the SuexecUserGroup directive. And suEXEC allows /srv/h1/gitweb.cgi to be executed because the directory /srv/h1 is declared as suEXEC's docroot in /etc/apache2/suexec/git, and /etc/apache2/suexec/git is the operative configuration file because gitweb.cgi is being executed as user 'git'. However, when I actually try and GET / on h1.my.domain I receive 500. The Apache error log says: suexec policy violation: see suexec log for more details And the suexec error log says: [2014-09-18 17:02:02]: uid: (1002/git) gid: (1002/git) cmd: gitweb.cgi [2014-09-18 17:02:02]: command not in docroot (/srv/h1/gitweb.cgi) Lastly, I found that I could actually make gitweb.cgi execute successfully by altering the /etc/apache2/suexec/www-data config like this: /srv/h1 public_html/cgi-bin i.e., replacing the default /var/www docroot with /srv/h1. This implies that suEXEC is being called as www-data, and not git. Does that sound right? Can anyone explain what's going on here? Thanks, Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/85oaucx5p2.wl%richard.le...@gold.ac.uk