>Number: 3609 >Category: mod_cgi >Synopsis: spawn child process error >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache >State: open >Class: support >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Wed Dec 30 00:30:00 PST 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: 1.3.3 >Environment: win 98 other than that it dont run down system handels a webserver well >Description: hello I am not sure if i am writeing to the right place but I am running apache on a windows system. and I can not seem to get the cgi - bin to allow users to run cgi scripts i keep geting a child prosses error or a 404 and i have it set up like this # This is the main server configuration file. See URL http://www.apache.org/ # for instructions.
# Do NOT simply read the instructions in here without understanding # what they do, if you are unsure consult the online docs. You have been # warned. # Originally by Rob McCool # Note: Where filenames are specified, you must use forward slashes # instead of backslashes. e.g. "c:/apache" instead of "c:\apache". If # the drive letter is ommited, the drive where Apache.exe is located # will be assumed # ServerType must be standalone. ServerType standalone # # The following lists extra modules that can be uncommented to be loaded # to enable extra functionality. See the manual # (http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/) for details on the functionality # of each module. # #LoadModule anon_auth_module modules/ApacheModuleAuthAnon.dll #LoadModule cern_meta_module modules/ApacheModuleCERNMeta.dll #LoadModule digest_module modules/ApacheModuleDigest.dll #LoadModule expires_module modules/ApacheModuleExpires.dll #LoadModule headers_module modules/ApacheModuleHeaders.dll #LoadModule proxy_module modules/ApacheModuleProxy.dll #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/ApacheModuleRewrite.dll #LoadModule speling_module modules/ApacheModuleSpeling.dll #LoadModule status_module modules/ApacheModuleStatus.dll #LoadModule usertrack_module modules/ApacheModuleUserTrack.dll # Port: The port the standalone listens to. Port 80 # HostnameLookups: Log the names of clients or just their IP numbers # e.g. www.apache.org (on) or 204.62.129.132 (off) # The default is off because it'd be overall better for the net if people # had to knowingly turn this feature on. HostnameLookups on # If you wish httpd to run as a different user or group, you must run # httpd as root initially and it will switch. # ServerAdmin: Your address, where problems with the server should be # e-mailed. ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ServerRoot: The directory the server's config, error, and log files # are kept in #ServerRoot "C:/webshare/wwwroot" ServerRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/" # BindAddress: You can support virtual hosts with this option. This option # is used to tell the server which IP address to listen to. It can either # contain "*", an IP address, or a fully qualified Internet domain name. # See also the VirtualHost directive. BindAddress "208.2.91.18" # ErrorLog: The location of the error log file. If this does not start # with /, ServerRoot is prepended to it. ErrorLog logs/error.log # LogLevel: Control the number of messages logged to the error.log. # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel warn # The following directives define some format nicknames for use with # a CustomLog directive (see below). LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent # The location of the access logfile (Common Logfile Format). # If this does not start with /, ServerRoot is prepended to it. CustomLog logs/access.log common # If you would like to have an agent and referer logfile uncomment the # following directives. #CustomLog logs/referer.log referer #CustomLog logs/agent.log agent # If you prefer a single logfile with access, agent and referer information # (Combined Logfile Format) you can use the following directive. #CustomLog logs/access.log combined # PidFile: The file the server should log its pid to PidFile logs/httpd.pid # ScoreBoardFile: File used to store internal server process information. # Not all architectures require this. But if yours does (you'll know because # this file is created when you run Apache) then you *must* ensure that # no two invocations of Apache share the same scoreboard file. ScoreBoardFile logs/apache_status # ExtendedStatus controls whether Apache will generate "full" status # information (ExtendedStatus On) or just basic information (ExtendedStatus # Off) when the server-status Handler is called. The default is Off. # #ExtendedStatus On # ServerName allows you to set a host name which is sent back to clients for # your server if it's different than the one the program would get (i.e. use # "www" instead of the host's real name). # # Note: You cannot just invent host names and hope they work. The name you # define here must be a valid DNS name for your host. If you don't understand # this, ask your network administrator. ServerName www.webwizardhost.com # UseCanonicalName: (new for 1.3) With this setting turned on, whenever # Apache needs to construct a self-referencing URL (a url that refers back # to the server the response is coming from) it will use ServerName and # Port to form a "canonical" name. With this setting off, Apache will # use the hostname:port that the client supplied, when possible. This # also affects SERVER_NAME and SERVER_PORT in CGIs. UseCanonicalName on # CacheNegotiatedDocs: By default, Apache sends Pragma: no-cache with each # document that was negotiated on the basis of content. This asks proxy # servers not to cache the document. Uncommenting the following line disables # this behavior, and proxies will be allowed to cache the documents. #CacheNegotiatedDocs # Timeout: The number of seconds before receives and sends time out Timeout 300 # KeepAlive: Whether or not to allow persistent connections (more than # one request per connection). Set to "Off" to deactivate. KeepAlive On # MaxKeepAliveRequests: The maximum number of requests to allow # during a persistent connection. Set to 0 to allow an unlimited amount. # We reccomend you leave this number high, for maximum performance. MaxKeepAliveRequests 100 # KeepAliveTimeout: Number of seconds to wait for the next request KeepAliveTimeout 15 # Apache always creates one child process to handle requests. If it # dies another child process is created automatically. Within the # child process multiple threads handle incoming requests. The next two # directives determine the behaviour of the threads and processes. # Don't force a server to exit after it has served some number of requests. # If you do want server's to exit after they have run for a long time (to # help the system clean up after the process), please set this to a pretty # large number - like 10,000. What this will do, is, each child server will # exit after serving 10,000 requests, and another server will take its place. #MaxRequestsPerChild 10,000 # Number of concurrent threads at a time (set the value to more or less # depending on the responsiveness you want and the resources you wish # this server to consume). ThreadsPerChild 150 # Proxy Server directives. Uncomment the following line to # enable the proxy server: # ProxyRequests On # To enable the cache as well, edit and uncomment the following lines: #CacheRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/proxy" #CacheSize 5 #CacheGcInterval 4 #CacheMaxExpire 24 #CacheLastModifiedFactor 0.1 #CacheDefaultExpire 1 #NoCache a_domain.com another_domain.edu joes.garage_sale.com # Listen: Allows you to bind Apache to specific IP addresses and/or # ports, in addition to the default. See also the VirtualHost command # VirtualHost: Allows the daemon to respond to requests for more than one # server address, if your server machine is configured to accept IP packets # for multiple addresses. This can be accomplished with the ifconfig # alias flag, or through kernel patches like VIF. # Any httpd.conf or srm.conf directive may go into a VirtualHost command. # See also the BindAddress entry. NameVirtualHost 208.2.91.18 <VirtualHost 208.2.91.18> ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /home/host/www ScriptAlias /cgi-bin /home/host/www/cgi-bin Options IncludesNoExec ServerName www.webwizardhost.com ErrorLog /home/host/error_log TransferLog /home/host/access_log </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost 208.2.91.18> ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /home/seemewash/www ScriptAlias /cgi-bin /home/seemewash/www/cgi-bin Options IncludesNoExec ServerName www.seemewash.com ErrorLog /home/seemewash/error_log TransferLog /home/seemewash/access_log </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost 208.2.91.18> ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /home/steveuphol/www ScriptAlias /cgi-bin /home/steveuphol/www/cgi-bin Options IncludesNoExec ServerName www.steveuphol.com ErrorLog /home/steveuphol/error_log TransferLog /home/steveuphol/access_log </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost 208.2.91.18> ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /home/omniteq/www ScriptAlias /cgi-bin /home/omniteq/www/cgi-bin Options IncludesNoExec ServerName www.omniteq-computers.com ErrorLog /home/omniteq/error_log TransferLog /home/omniteq/access_log </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost 208.2.91.18> ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /home/storagequip/www ScriptAlias /cgi-bin /home/storagequip/www/cgi-bin Options IncludesNoExec ServerName www.storagequip.com ErrorLog /home/storagequip/error_log TransferLog /home/storagequip/access_log </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost 208.2.91.18> ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /home/mail/www ScriptAlias /cgi-bin /home/mail/www/cgi-bin Options IncludesNoExec ServerName mail.webwizardhost.com ErrorLog /home/mail/error_log TransferLog /home/mail/access_log </VirtualHost> # access.conf: Global access configuration # Online docs at http://www.apache.org/ # This file defines server settings which affect which types of services # are allowed, and in what circumstances. # Each directory to which Apache has access, can be configured with respect # to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that # directory (and its subdirectories). # Note: Where filenames are specified, you must use forward slashes # instead of backslashes. e.g. "c:/apache" instead of "c:\apache". If # the drive letter is ommited, the drive where Apache.exe is located # will be assumed # Originally by Rob McCool # First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of # permissions. # XXXX disabled because it is currently broken on Win32 #<Directory /> #Options FollowSymLinks #AllowOverride None #</Directory> # Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow # particular features to be enabled - so if something's not working as # you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it # below. # This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to. <Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/htdocs"> # This may also be "None", "All", or any combination of "Indexes", # "Includes", "FollowSymLinks", "ExecCGI", or "MultiViews". # Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All" # doesn't give it to you. Options Indexes FollowSymLinks # This controls which options the .htaccess files in directories can # override. Can also be "All", or any combination of "Options", "FileInfo", # "AuthConfig", and "Limit" AllowOverride None # Controls who can get stuff from this server. order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> # C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/cgi-bin should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased # CGI directory exists, if you have that configured. <Directory "C:/home/host/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options None </Directory> # Allow server status reports, with the URL of http://servername/server-status # Change the ".your_domain.com" to match your domain to enable. #<Location /server-status> #SetHandler server-status #order deny,allow #deny from all #allow from .your_domain.com #</Location> # Allow remote server configuration reports, with the URL of # http://servername/server-info (requires that mod_info.c be loaded). # Change the ".your_domain.com" to match your domain to enable. #<Location /server-info> #SetHandler server-info #order deny,allow #deny from all #allow from .your_domain.com #</Location> # There have been reports of people trying to abuse an old bug from pre-1.1 # days. This bug involved a CGI script distributed as a part of Apache. # By uncommenting these lines you can redirect these attacks to a logging # script on phf.apache.org. Or, you can record them yourself, using the script # support/phf_abuse_log.cgi. #<Location /cgi-bin/phf*> #deny from all #ErrorDocument 403 http://phf.apache.org/phf_abuse_log.cgi #</Location> # You may place any other directories or locations you wish to have # access information for after this one. srm.cfg # With this document, you define the name space that users see of your http # server. This file also defines server settings which affect how requests are # serviced, and how results should be formatted. # See the tutorials at http://www.apache.org/ for # more information. # Originally by Rob McCool; Adapted for Apache # Note: Where filenames are specified, you must use forward slashes # instead of backslashes. e.g. "c:/apache" instead of "c:\apache". If # the drive letter is ommited, the drive where Apache.exe is located # will be assumed. # DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your # documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but # symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations. DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/htdocs" # UserDir: The name of the directory which is appended onto a user's home # directory if a ~user request is recieved. # # Under Win32, we do not currently try to determine the home directory of # a Windows login, so one of the forms such as the below needs to be # used. See the manual for details. # #UserDir "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/users/" # DirectoryIndex: Name of the file or files to use as a pre-written HTML # directory index. Separate multiple entries with spaces. DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm .cgi # FancyIndexing is whether you want fancy directory indexing or standard FancyIndexing on # AddIcon tells the server which icon to show for different files or filename # extensions AddIconByEncoding (CMP,/icons/compressed.gif) x-compress x-gzip AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/text.gif) text/* AddIconByType (IMG,/icons/image2.gif) image/* AddIconByType (SND,/icons/sound2.gif) audio/* AddIconByType (VID,/icons/movie.gif) video/* AddIcon /icons/binary.gif .bin .exe AddIcon /icons/binhex.gif .hqx AddIcon /icons/tar.gif .tar AddIcon /icons/world2.gif .wrl .wrl.gz .vrml .vrm .iv AddIcon /icons/compressed.gif .Z .z .tgz .gz .zip AddIcon /icons/a.gif .ps .ai .eps AddIcon /icons/layout.gif .html .shtml .htm .pdf AddIcon /icons/text.gif .txt AddIcon /icons/c.gif .c AddIcon /icons/p.gif .pl .py AddIcon /icons/f.gif .for AddIcon /icons/dvi.gif .dvi AddIcon /icons/uuencoded.gif .uu AddIcon /icons/script.gif .conf .sh .shar .csh .ksh .tcl AddIcon /icons/tex.gif .tex AddIcon /icons/bomb.gif core AddIcon /icons/back.gif .. AddIcon /icons/hand.right.gif README AddIcon /icons/folder.gif ^^DIRECTORY^^ AddIcon /icons/blank.gif ^^BLANKICON^^ # DefaultIcon is which icon to show for files which do not have an icon # explicitly set. DefaultIcon /icons/unknown.gif # AddDescription allows you to place a short description after a file in # server-generated indexes. # Format: AddDescription "description" filename # ReadmeName is the name of the README file the server will look for by # default. Format: ReadmeName name # # The server will first look for name.html, include it if found, and it will # then look for name and include it as plaintext if found. # # HeaderName is the name of a file which should be prepended to # directory indexes. ReadmeName README HeaderName HEADER # IndexIgnore is a set of filenames which directory indexing should ignore # Format: IndexIgnore name1 name2... IndexIgnore .??* *~ *# HEADER* README* RCS # AccessFileName: The name of the file to look for in each directory # for access control information. AccessFileName .htaccess # The following lines prevent .htaccess files from being viewed by # Web clients. Since .htaccess files often contain authorization # information, access is disallowed for security reasons. Comment # these lines out if you want Web visitors to see the contents of # .htaccess files. If you change the AccessFileName directive above, # be sure to make the corresponding changes here. <Files .htaccess> order allow,deny deny from all </Files> # TypesConfig describes where the mime.types file (or equivalent) is # to be found. TypesConfig conf/mime.types # DefaultType is the default MIME type for documents which the server # cannot find the type of from filename extensions. DefaultType text/plain # AddEncoding allows you to have certain browsers (Mosaic/X 2.1+) uncompress # information on the fly. Note: Not all browsers support this. AddEncoding x-compress Z AddEncoding x-gzip gz # AddLanguage allows you to specify the language of a document. You can # then use content negotiation to give a browser a file in a language # it can understand. Note that the suffix does not have to be the same # as the language keyword --- those with documents in Polish (whose # net-standard language code is pl) may wish to use "AddLanguage pl .po" # to avoid the ambiguity with the common suffix for perl scripts. AddLanguage en .en AddLanguage fr .fr AddLanguage de .de AddLanguage da .da AddLanguage el .el AddLanguage it .it # LanguagePriority allows you to give precedence to some languages # in case of a tie during content negotiation. # Just list the languages in decreasing order of preference. LanguagePriority en fr de # Redirect allows you to tell clients about documents which used to exist in # your server's namespace, but do not anymore. This allows you to tell the # clients where to look for the relocated document. # Format: Redirect fakename url # Aliases: Add here as many aliases as you need (with no limit). The format is # Alias fakename realname # Note that if you include a trailing / on fakename then the server will # require it to be present in the URL. So "/icons" isn't aliased in this # example. Alias /icons/ "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/icons/" # ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts. # Format: ScriptAlias fakename realname # ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/cgi-bin/" ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:/home/omniteq/www/cgi-bin/" ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:/home/host/www/cgi-bin/" # If you want to use server side includes, or CGI outside # ScriptAliased directories, uncomment the following lines. # AddType allows you to tweak mime.types without actually editing it, or to # make certain files to be certain types. # Format: AddType type/subtype ext1 # For example, the PHP3 module (not part of the Apache distribution) # will typically use: #AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .phtml #AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps # AddHandler allows you to map certain file extensions to "handlers", # actions unrelated to filetype. These can be either built into the server # or added with the Action command (see below) # Format: AddHandler action-name ext1 # To use CGI scripts: AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl # To use server-parsed HTML files AddType text/html .shtml AddHandler server-parsed .shtml # Uncomment the following line to enable Apache's send-asis HTTP file # feature AddHandler send-as-is asis # If you wish to use server-parsed imagemap files, use AddHandler imap-file map # To enable type maps, you might want to use AddHandler type-map var # Action lets you define media types that will execute a script whenever # a matching file is called. This eliminates the need for repeated URL #pathnames for oft-used CGI file processors. #Format: Action media/type /cgi-script/location #Format: Action handler-name /cgi-script/location # MetaDir: specifies the name of the directory in which Apache can find # meta information files. These files contain additional HTTP headers # to include when sending the document #MetaDir .web # MetaSuffix: specifies the file name suffix for the file containing the # meta information. #MetaSuffix .meta # Customizable error response (Apache style) # these come in three flavors # # 1) plain text #ErrorDocument 500 "The server made a boo boo. # n.b. the (") marks it as text, it does not get output # # 2) local redirects #ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html # to redirect to local url /missing.html #ErrorDocument 404 /cgi-bin/missing_handler.pl # n.b. can redirect to a script or a document using server-side-includes. # # 3) external redirects #ErrorDocument 402 http://some.other_server.com/subscription_info.html # # mod_mime_magic allows the server to use various hints from the file itself # to determine its type. #MimeMagicFile conf/magic # The following directives disable keepalives and HTTP header flushes. # The first directive disables it for Netscape 2.x and browsers which # spoof it. There are known problems with these. # The second directive is for Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0b2 # which has a broken HTTP/1.1 implementation and does not properly # support keepalive when it is used on 301 or 302 (redirect) responses. BrowserMatch "Mozilla/2" nokeepalive BrowserMatch "MSIE 4\.0b2;" nokeepalive downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0 # The following directive disables HTTP/1.1 responses to browsers which # are in violation of the HTTP/1.0 spec by not being able to grok a # basic 1.1 response. BrowserMatch "RealPlayer 4\.0" force-response-1.0 BrowserMatch "Java/1\.0" force-response-1.0 BrowserMatch "JDK/1\.0" force-response-1.0 this is the error Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. couldn't spawn child process: c:/home/host/www/cgi-bin/search.cgi i dont know why it says c:/home/ect. but this is what i get any help I would be gratefull. jerold >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: [In order for any reply to be added to the PR database, ] [you need to include <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the Cc line ] [and leave the subject line UNCHANGED. This is not done] [automatically because of the potential for mail loops. ] [If you do not include this Cc, your reply may be ig- ] [nored unless you are responding to an explicit request ] [from a developer. ] [Reply only with text; DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS! ]
