Permission denied

Hi,
I am not certain I am posting in the correct group so if I am not, I'm
sorry.
here is my problem:

I have a cgi file that is calling another program (fortran) if I do not
execute through apache, it works just fine, but as soon as I want to
executed it through a web page. I get sh: ./myFortanProgramName:
Permission denied, in my apache log file.

If I do not call this program, the cgi file works fine when calle
through the web.

I checked the permission and they are rwxr-xr-x

I am using apache 2.0 under fedoracore 4

If you have any idea, please help me since I do not know what to do or
in what direction I should look into
Thanks,
mc

mcvallet@hotmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> I am not certain I am posting in the correct group so if I am not, I'm
> sorry.
> here is my problem:
>
> I have a cgi file that is calling another program (fortran) if I do not
> execute through apache, it works just fine, but as soon as I want to
> executed it through a web page. I get sh: ./myFortanProgramName:
> Permission denied, in my apache log file.
>
> If I do not call this program, the cgi file works fine when calle
> through the web.
>
> I checked the permission and they are rwxr-xr-x
>
> I am using apache 2.0 under fedoracore 4
>
> If you have any idea, please help me since I do not know what to do or
> in what direction I should look into
> Thanks,
> mc
>

Perhaps you need to change the ownership of the file to the user of the
webserver.

> Perhaps you need to change the ownership of the file to the user of the
> webserver.
doesn't seem to work either but thanks.
I am not certain, but I think this has to do with my apache
configuration but I don't know what to change in it

I checked again for the permissions on the file, I logged in a nobody
and as apache and I can execute the cgi program, and the other program
that is called without any problem, so it must be a problem with my
apache configuration, but I really don't know what I should change in
the configuration so please somebody, help me...
thanks
mc

mcvallet@hotmail.com wrote:
> I checked again for the permissions on the file, I logged in a nobody
> and as apache and I can execute the cgi program, and the other program
> that is called without any problem, so it must be a problem with my
> apache configuration, but I really don't know what I should change in
> the configuration so please somebody, help me...
> thanks
> mc

You may need to use the absolute path of the executable file in your
CGI scripts.

from ./myFortanProgramName to /path/to/myFortanProgramName

Xicheng

I found the solution, after discussing with several people, (i could
not have found the solution my self)
the problem was link to file permission, but not linux or apache it was
linked to SElinux on fedora core 4.
I disabled it , and now my program works just fine,
thanks for you help,
mc