"David Efflandt" <efflandt@xnet.com> wrote in message
news:slrnbgeluj.t3h.efflandt@typhoon.xnet.com...
> On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 09:40:58 -0700, WLauman <wlauman@email.com> wrote:
> > Background:
> > 1. Program works on real world paid hosting (linux server).
> > 2. Program works on Windows home testing server.(Omnihttpd)
> >
> > Just Installed Red Hat 8.0 .
> > Created cgi-bin for main site using..
> > ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/path/to/my/site/"
>
> Shouldn't that be:
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/path/to/my/site/cgi-bin"
>
> > and
> > Directory "/path/to/my/site/cgi-bin">
> > Allowoverride None
> > Options +Indexes
> > Order allow,deny
> > Allow from all
> > /Directory>
> > Program seems to work for the most part with a few exceptions.
> > Using the perl command "unlink" is not working,
> > and creating new files is not working.
> > Im thinking permissions but..
>
> Yes it is permissions. Unless you run CGI under suexec (as the webspace
> owner), CGI is running as a common user that is not you and not in your
> group. So a directory would need something like 757 or 707 permission
> (not healthy) and files would need 646 or 606 permission if they are not
> owned by the user apache is running as.
>
> > I'm running the program on the red hat box (as root) using the local
> > address(127.0.0.1).
> > Chmod 755.
>
> Apache typically changes to a different user than root to handle requests,
> once it binds to the ports it needs. And it certainly is not going to be
> able to tamper with dirs/files owned by root.
>
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Thanks David for your time and insight.
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/path/to/my/site/cgi-bin" is the correct path...my
error in haste to post.

I still am lost however in how to correct this problem.
I have two IP addresses.
I have the server on one and my home computer on the other. I have tried
logging into server as root, connecting to the server through the lan and
connecting via the net. When connecting to the server i am unable to write
to a file or unlink or create a new file unless i set permissions to
777..(Very Bad) I have been using this perl script for years on both home
(windows)server and paid hosting using permissions 755. I thought that maybe
I have something incorrectly configured somewhere.
My root doc is not the default. All folders and files have had permissions
set to 755.

Thanks Again
Wayne