The user you are running apache under needs to have write access to that
directory.
Igor
On Sep 16, 2011 7:35 AM, "Rajeev Prasad" <rp.ne...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> hello,
> I have my site config as below on ubuntu:
>
> I am running a perl cgi which is trying to write a file under /var/www/
testwebsite.com/www/data folder, but i am getting error like this:
>
> [error] [client xxxxx] could not open /var/www/
testwebsite.com/www/data/testfile: Permission denied, referer: ....
>
> the script and folder everything is owned by same ubuntu user.
>
> when i run the script from command prompt i get no error, files are
created successfully.
>
> I have also tried to save the files to /var/www/testwebsite.com/datafolder
> but that also failed.(gave same error)
>
> plz. help.
>
> here is the site config:
>
> <VirtualHost *:80>
> ServerName testwebsite.com
> ServerAlias www.testwebsite.com
> ServerAdmin ad...@testwebsite.com
> ServerSignature Off
> DocumentRoot /var/www/testwebsite.com/www
> <Directory />
> Options +FollowSymLinks
> AllowOverride None
> </Directory>
> <Directory /var/www/testwebsite.com/www/>
> Options +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews +Includes
> AllowOverride None
> Order allow,deny
> allow from all
> </Directory>
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/testwebsite.com/cgi-bin/
> <Directory "/var/www/testwebsite.com/cgi-bin/">
> AllowOverride None
> Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch +Includes
> AddHandler cgi-script cgi pl #was added
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
> </Directory>
> ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
> # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
> # alert, emerg.
> LogLevel warn
> CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
> Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
> <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
> Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
> AllowOverride None
> Order deny,allow
> Deny from all
> Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
> </Directory>
> DirectoryIndex /cgi-bin/index.pl
> </VirtualHost>
>
>
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