I may not have a chance to try this before escaping to the cottage for the
weekend. But I did do this earlier in my testing:
export MOD_WSGI_GROUP="\"domain users\""
mod_wsgi-express start-server
to pass through a quoted string, and it worked fine. I'll confirm with your
steps as soon as I can and let you know.
On Friday, July 20, 2018 at 8:13:55 PM UTC-3, Graham Dumpleton wrote:
>
> Can you do the following for me to test what Apache does?
>
> Run your 'mod_wsgi-express start-server' command with the '--setup-only'
> option added.
>
> Edit the 'httpd.conf' generated and add single quotes around values for
> User and Group.
>
> That is:
>
> User '${MOD_WSGI_USER}'
> Group '${MOD_WSGI_GROUP}'
>
>
> Then run:
>
> ./apachectl start
>
> using the 'apachectl' script in the same directory as the generated
> httpd.conf file.
>
> I just want to check that Apache and your OS aren't going to die when
> given a group name with spaces in it for other reasons.
>
> When done, run:
>
> ./apachectl stop
>
> Graham
>
> On 20 Jul 2018, at 10:05 pm, YKdvd <[email protected] <javascript:>>
> wrote:
>
> Aha! My account's group is "domain users" (with the space), coming from
> the SSSD/Active Directory login management. So Apache is seeing GROUP
> domain users, and thinks there are two parameters because of the space.
>
> Googling, I see other mentions of "domain users" group with AD-managed
> linux boxes. If you had GROUP "${MOD_WSGI_GROUP}" (with the quotes) in
> your template, I think Apache would be happy, with no side effects? Or
> perhaps using "#-1" (the 'omitted' indicator) instead of looking up and
> filling in the current user's group with your default_run_group produce the
> correct result in all cases?
>
> On Friday, July 20, 2018 at 5:34:28 AM UTC-3, Graham Dumpleton wrote:
>>
>> What do you get if you put this in a file and run Python on it.
>>
>> import os
>> import pwd
>>
>> def default_run_group():
>> if os.name == 'nt':
>> return '#0'
>>
>> try:
>> import pwd
>> uid = os.getuid()
>> entry = pwd.getpwuid(uid)
>> except KeyError:
>> return '#%d' % uid
>>
>> try:
>> import grp
>> gid = entry.pw_gid
>> return grp.getgrgid(gid).gr_name
>> except KeyError:
>> return '#%d' % gid
>>
>> print(default_run_group())
>>
>> Looks a bit like you are running as a user which isn't in any groups.
>>
>> You can use the --group option to override it and pass something
>> appropriate.
>>
>> Graham
>>
>> On 20 Jul 2018, at 2:43 pm, YKdvd <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I ran mod_wsgi-express start-server. If instead I do this:
>>
>> export MOD_WSGI_GROUP="#-1"
>> mod_wsgi-express start-server
>>
>> everything works fine and the :8000 url gives me your test page. And now
>> here at home on MacOS with Apache 2.4, I installed via pip and immediately
>> ran mod_wsgi-express start-server, and it worked fine.
>>
>> Is there any chance the Ubuntu Apache 2.4.18 is somehow handling the
>> empty "GROUP " in the config differently than the MacOS? The other thing
>> is that the Ubuntu box is using SSSD to authenticate logins against our
>> Active Directory, so my group is "domain users" GID something
>> like 167000513, not a local group, though I'm not sure how that could have
>> Apache throw the parsing error it does.
>>
>> On Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 7:24:30 PM UTC-3, Graham Dumpleton wrote:
>>>
>>> How are you trying to use this? What command are you using to start with
>>> this configuration?
>>>
>>> It looks a bit like you are trying to use the generated httpd
>>> configuration with the system Apache system directly somehow, rather than
>>> using 'mod_wsgi-express start-server' or the generated 'apachectl' script
>>> as intended. So please explain what steps you have done after installing
>>> mod_wsgi using 'pip install'.
>>>
>>> Graham
>>>
>>> On 20 Jul 2018, at 7:54 am, YKdvd <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I was trying to start using mod_wsgi_express (4.6.4), and my initial
>>> attempt produced this error:
>>>
>>> AH00526: Syntax error on line 18 of
>>> /tmp/mod_wsgi-localhost:8000:167003626/httpd.conf:
>>> Group takes one argument, Effective group id for this server
>>>
>>> It looks like when setting up the Apache /tmp/httpd.conf config, it
>>> doesn't provide a default value for the environment
>>> variable MOD_WSGI_GROUP, so if it doesn't exist an empty string gets used
>>> and line 18 looks like:
>>>
>>> Group ${MOD_WSGI_GROUP}
>>>
>>> which probably evaluate to "Group ". Apache apparently wants a value if
>>> you specify "Group" at all, and startup halts at that point. If I have a
>>> value for MOD_WSGI_GROUP in my environment before launch, things work, but
>>> I shouldn't have to have this set, should I - the express config should
>>> provide a default value of the current user's group? This is Apache 2.4.18
>>> on Ubuntu 16.04.
>>>
>>>
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