apache problem

Creamy Goodness · 22-04-2008 01:56PM #1

i'm having a problem with apache and some perl scripts i'm trying to run.

i had my website running under apache on a solaris 8 machine and i'm now trying to port it over to a suse linux machine.

all my cgi files display fine and good but there's some pages that eg. index.cgi that calls a perl file inside cgi-bin/scripts/myfile.pl

i'm viewing my page in firefox with firebug installed (it shows me where errors are occurring) it gives me this error when i click the button to execute this script

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">

<html><head>

<title>403 Forbidden</title>

</head><body>

<h1>Forbidden</h1>

<p>You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/scripts/myfile.pl

on this server.</p>

<hr>

<address>Apache/2.2.8 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8e PHP/5.2.5 mod_apreq2-20051231/2.6.0 mod_perl

/2.0.2 Perl/v5.10.0 Server at xxxxx.xxxxx.xx Port 80</address>

</body></html>

that led me to believe there were incorrect permissions on my directory structure which is like the following:

Mydir
    - cgi-bin
        - scripts
    - html

all directories and files in this structure have permission of drwx-rx-rx or (chmod 755).

the scripts were working perfectly before moving to the new server.

anyone know what else could be causing this problem?

ntlbell · 22-04-2008 01:59PM

Cremo wrote: »
i'm having a problem with apache and some perl scripts i'm trying to run.

i had my website running under apache on a solaris 8 machine and i'm now trying to port it over to a suse linux machine.

all my cgi files display fine and good but there's some pages that eg. index.cgi that calls a perl file inside cgi-bin/scripts/myfile.pl

i'm viewing my page in firefox with firebug installed (it shows me where errors are occurring) it gives me this error when i click the button to execute this script
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">

<html><head>

<title>403 Forbidden</title>

</head><body>

<h1>Forbidden</h1>

<p>You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/scripts/myfile.pl

on this server.</p>

<hr>

<address>Apache/2.2.8 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8e PHP/5.2.5 mod_apreq2-20051231/2.6.0 mod_perl

/2.0.2 Perl/v5.10.0 Server at xxxxx.xxxxx.xx Port 80</address>

</body></html>
that led me to believe there were incorrect permissions on my directory structure which is like the following:
Mydir
    - cgi-bin
        - scripts
    - html
all directories and files in this structure have permission of drwx-rx-rx or (chmod 755).

the scripts were working perfectly before moving to the new server.

anyone know what else could be causing this problem?

in the same dir if you make a test index.html can you see that?

What is above Mydir?

Creamy Goodness · 22-04-2008 02:08PM

cannot access a test.html in there after i created one.

the directory structure is

/home/neil/Mydir...

mneylon · 22-04-2008 03:45PM

Check the log files

daymobrew · 22-04-2008 03:51PM

What is the ScriptAlias setting in httpd.conf? I would expect something like:
[PHP]ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/home/neil/Mydir/cgi-bin/"
<Directory "/home/neil/Mydir/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
[/PHP]

cgarvey · 24-04-2008 04:30AM

Like Blacknight says ... log lo lo log logs

ntlbell · 24-04-2008 11:37AM

is neil world readable?

apache problem

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