On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 17:07 +0200, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet) wrote:
> However this machine is also running the Plesk 8 control > panel. When it came to installing the CGI interface (a single file!) > this is were I got stuck. > > As I understand, I can either run the CGI interface setuid backuppc > or run a separate apache instance running as user backuppc using > mod_perl. I thought the setuid way would be the easiest to get > working, but I think Plesk may be getting in the way to much. > > I have set up a vhost backup.lemonbit.nl through Plesk and this > automatically creates a /var/www/vhosts/backup.lemonbit.nl/cgi-bin/ > directory as this domain's cgi-bin directory. This is also the > location I entered when running perl configure.pl and afterwards I > indeed found BackupPC_Admin there: > > -r-sr-xr-- 1 backuppc backuppc 3912 Jun 7 11:48 BackupPC_Admin > > However, these are the permissions on the /var/www/vhosts/ > backup.lemonbit.nl/cgi-bin directory: > > drwxr-x--- 2 lemonbitbackup psaserv 4096 Jun 7 15:42 cgi-bin I don't know enough about plesk to help much. Does it run a separate httpd instance with a different uid for each virtual server? > So: the backuppc user is not able to execute BackupPC_Admin as it > cannot get to the script. All I get is 500 Internal Server Errors and > my logs keep saying: "Premature end of script headers: BackupPC_Admin" I think you'd get a permission error logged if it is a permission error. Check your ScriptAlias in the httpd.conf for the vhost to see what happens to /cgi-bin requests. > I believe however that if I change the ownership on the cgi-bin > directory I can't execute any scripts at all. The cgi-bin directory (and all above) must have read and execute permission for the httpd server user. The BackupPC_Admin file must be owned by the backuppc user and have the setuid bit set. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
