Re: apache, perl, 403 forbidden, help?
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 06:28:10AM -0600, Herbert Ho wrote: I've tried it both with and without the '+'. they both result in the same error (403 forbidden). i check my permissions again and as far as i can tell all parent directories are at least o+rx. for some reason i can't understand apache is ignoring the Directory directives i use in the conf file... =( thanks for your suggestion. herbert On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 04:57:03PM -0600, Chris Feist wrote: SNIP 1) i've added the handler and options directives to my srm.conf: AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl Directory / Options +All +ExecCGI /Directory You shouldn't have a + in front of All and ExecCGI. I'm not sure if you're just doing it for empahsis, but that could be your problem. au contraire. Options ExecCGI sets options to be 'ExecCGI' only, regardless of what they were before, whereas Options +ExecCGI leaves current options as is, except for turning ExecCGI on. as i understand it, anyhow. Make sure your permissions are at least 755. make sure the partition is mounted for executability (as opposed to noexec) -- use command 'mount' can you run the perl from the command line? have you enabled mod_cgi? LoadModule cgi_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_cgi.so # if you don't `apt-get install apache-perl` you'll need to: # LoadModule perl_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_perl.so AddHandler cgi-script .cgi # note that this will tell apache to run ANYthing # ending in *.cgi or *.pl, so beware! FilesMatch \.cgi # these will need '#!' shebang path on first line SetHandler cgi-script Options +ExecCGI /FilesMatch FilesMatch \.pl Options +ExecCGI SetHandler perl-script PerlSendHeader Off PerlHandler Apache::PerlRun # or # PerlHandler Apache::Registry /FilesMatch 2) i tried pointing the directory to the exact directory where i'm executing the script (i.e. / - /home/herb/public_html/init, my script resides in init/) to no avail. 3) i tried replacing the Directory directive w/ ScriptAlias ~herb/public_html/init /home/herb/public_html/init again, no effect. LoadModule userdir_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_userdir.so UserDir disabled root UserDir /home/*/public_html DirectoryMatch ^/home/.*/public_html/cgi-bin Options +ExecCGI /DirectoryMatch 4) installing the 'apache' package instead of 'apache-perl'. it makes me download the script. permissions look correct. all parents of the script directory are at least o+rx. i am able to execute scripts ok in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ (ScriptAlias'ed to cgi-bin/), but not elsewhere. HELP? any is appreicated... hopefully there's a pointer in the above hoo-hah to nudge you over the top...? (and with luck, i've not left out anything important -- there's lots!) -- There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison. --William Glasser [EMAIL PROTECTED]***http://www.dontUthink.com/ volunteer to document your experience for next week's newbies -- http://www.eGroups.com/messages/newbieDoc
Re: apache, perl, 403 forbidden, help? (SOLVED...kinda)
Herb, There's a typo in your document header in the perl script. It has to have 2 newlines at the end. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Herbert Ho wrote: Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 14:49:42 -0600 From: Herbert Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ernest Johanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: apache, perl, 403 forbidden, help? (SOLVED...kinda) thanks for everyone's help so far. it works...a little bit more. =) the problem i found is that there is already a Directory directive for the public_html/ directories in access.conf. this seems to either be read last (thus overrriding changes made in other files) or conflict w/ changes made in other files. so it now is able to run the perl script. but it still doesn't work entirely. the problem i have now is i get a '500 internal server error' from my browser. checking the error.log shows Premature end of script headers: /home/herb/public_html/init/test.pl the problem is a similar script works on a working http server my university runs (so i can't get the httpd.conf file to compare). here's the simple script. hopefully you can punch a hole in it for me: #!/usr/bin/perl -w print Content-type: text/html\n\; print EOF; htmlbody hi /body/html EOF also, here's the relative modification from my access.conf that made apache want to run it: DirectoryMatch ^/home/.*/public_html AddHandler cgi-script .pl .cgi Options ExecCGI Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch AllowOverride None /DirectoryMatch thanks in advance, herb On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 01:47:38PM -0800, Ernest Johanson wrote: Herbert, A few things to check: 1. Remove the quotes in your Directory statement, i.e. Directory / instead of Directory /. 2. Make sure the directory you are trying to execute cgis in is under your DocmentRoot if you're using a Directory / statement. If what you want is to serve pages and execute cgis from your user directory (typically outside the DocumentRoot), then read up on the UserDir directive in the apache docs. 3. Check your access.conf file to make sure there isn't already some directives configured for the path your directory is in. The default configuration in Debian has something for public_html that you may need to edit. 4. Be sure to restart the server after making changes. HTH, Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Herbert Ho wrote: Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:55:26 -0600 From: Herbert Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: apache, perl, 403 forbidden, help? hi all. i can't get apache to execute a perl/cgi script. *box: potato/sparc, installed apache-perl and its dependencies. *error: 403 forbidden in web browser. this in error log: Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: /home/herb/public_html/init/login.pl i tired everything in the faq and manual to little success. things i've tried: 1) i've added the handler and options directives to my srm.conf: AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl Directory / Options +All +ExecCGI /Directory i know +All and +ExecCGI are redudant and this is not secure, but i'm desperate. =) 2) i tried pointing the directory to the exact directory where i'm executing the script (i.e. / - /home/herb/public_html/init, my script resides in init/) to no avail. 3) i tried replacing the Directory directive w/ ScriptAlias ~herb/public_html/init /home/herb/public_html/init again, no effect. 4) installing the 'apache' package instead of 'apache-perl'. it makes me download the script. permissions look correct. all parents of the script directory are at least o+rx. i am able to execute scripts ok in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ (ScriptAlias'ed to cgi-bin/), but not elsewhere. HELP? any is appreicated... herbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apache, perl, 403 forbidden, help? (SOLVED...kinda)
thanks for everyone's help so far. it works...a little bit more. =) the problem i found is that there is already a Directory directive for the public_html/ directories in access.conf. this seems to either be read last (thus overrriding changes made in other files) or conflict w/ changes made in other files. so it now is able to run the perl script. but it still doesn't work entirely. the problem i have now is i get a '500 internal server error' from my browser. checking the error.log shows Premature end of script headers: /home/herb/public_html/init/test.pl the problem is a similar script works on a working http server my university runs (so i can't get the httpd.conf file to compare). here's the simple script. hopefully you can punch a hole in it for me: #!/usr/bin/perl -w print Content-type: text/html\n\; print EOF; htmlbody hi /body/html EOF also, here's the relative modification from my access.conf that made apache want to run it: DirectoryMatch ^/home/.*/public_html AddHandler cgi-script .pl .cgi Options ExecCGI Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch AllowOverride None /DirectoryMatch thanks in advance, herb On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 01:47:38PM -0800, Ernest Johanson wrote: Herbert, A few things to check: 1. Remove the quotes in your Directory statement, i.e. Directory / instead of Directory /. 2. Make sure the directory you are trying to execute cgis in is under your DocmentRoot if you're using a Directory / statement. If what you want is to serve pages and execute cgis from your user directory (typically outside the DocumentRoot), then read up on the UserDir directive in the apache docs. 3. Check your access.conf file to make sure there isn't already some directives configured for the path your directory is in. The default configuration in Debian has something for public_html that you may need to edit. 4. Be sure to restart the server after making changes. HTH, Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Herbert Ho wrote: Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:55:26 -0600 From: Herbert Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: apache, perl, 403 forbidden, help? hi all. i can't get apache to execute a perl/cgi script. *box: potato/sparc, installed apache-perl and its dependencies. *error: 403 forbidden in web browser. this in error log: Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: /home/herb/public_html/init/login.pl i tired everything in the faq and manual to little success. things i've tried: 1) i've added the handler and options directives to my srm.conf: AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl Directory / Options +All +ExecCGI /Directory i know +All and +ExecCGI are redudant and this is not secure, but i'm desperate. =) 2) i tried pointing the directory to the exact directory where i'm executing the script (i.e. / - /home/herb/public_html/init, my script resides in init/) to no avail. 3) i tried replacing the Directory directive w/ ScriptAlias ~herb/public_html/init /home/herb/public_html/init again, no effect. 4) installing the 'apache' package instead of 'apache-perl'. it makes me download the script. permissions look correct. all parents of the script directory are at least o+rx. i am able to execute scripts ok in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ (ScriptAlias'ed to cgi-bin/), but not elsewhere. HELP? any is appreicated... herbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apache, perl, 403 forbidden, help? (SOLVED...kinda)
#!/usr/bin/perl -w print Content-type: text/html\n\; print Content-type: text/html\n\n; doh! that's what happens when you don't copy/paste. =( but in the code that i actually run, the two '\n' do exist. sorry. =p herbert
Re: apache, perl, 403 forbidden, help?
I've tried it both with and without the '+'. they both result in the same error (403 forbidden). i check my permissions again and as far as i can tell all parent directories are at least o+rx. for some reason i can't understand apache is ignoring the Directory directives i use in the conf file... =( thanks for your suggestion. herbert On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 04:57:03PM -0600, Chris Feist wrote: SNIP 1) i've added the handler and options directives to my srm.conf: AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl Directory / Options +All +ExecCGI /Directory i know +All and +ExecCGI are redudant and this is not secure, but i'm desperate. =) You shouldn't have a + in front of All and ExecCGI. I'm not sure if you're just doing it for empahsis, but that could be your problem. Make sure your permissions are at least 755. 2) i tried pointing the directory to the exact directory where i'm executing the script (i.e. / - /home/herb/public_html/init, my script resides in init/) to no avail. 3) i tried replacing the Directory directive w/ ScriptAlias ~herb/public_html/init /home/herb/public_html/init again, no effect. 4) installing the 'apache' package instead of 'apache-perl'. it makes me download the script. permissions look correct. all parents of the script directory are at least o+rx. i am able to execute scripts ok in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ (ScriptAlias'ed to cgi-bin/), but not elsewhere. HELP? any is appreicated... herbert -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: apache, perl, 403 forbidden, help?
i tried this, but it hasn't worked. i did both AddHandler cgi-script .cgi and AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl i tried renaming all my perl scripts to .cgi, but it doesn't like it. if i use the first one (with my scrips still having .pl), the browser ends up downloading the script... i'm sure it's something really stupid but i don't know what it is... =p thanks for the help. herbert On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 06:19:57PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: It might be that you don't have it set up as a handler. Look in /etc/apache/srm.conf for AddHandler cgi-script .cgi I think it's commented out by default. Just uncomment it, and change your script's extenstion to .cgi (You could add .pl as a handler, but it's better just to stick with cgi). Hope that helps, Rob -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: apache, perl, 403 forbidden, help?
Herbert, A few things to check: 1. Remove the quotes in your Directory statement, i.e. Directory / instead of Directory /. 2. Make sure the directory you are trying to execute cgis in is under your DocmentRoot if you're using a Directory / statement. If what you want is to serve pages and execute cgis from your user directory (typically outside the DocumentRoot), then read up on the UserDir directive in the apache docs. 3. Check your access.conf file to make sure there isn't already some directives configured for the path your directory is in. The default configuration in Debian has something for public_html that you may need to edit. 4. Be sure to restart the server after making changes. HTH, Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Herbert Ho wrote: Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:55:26 -0600 From: Herbert Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: apache, perl, 403 forbidden, help? hi all. i can't get apache to execute a perl/cgi script. *box: potato/sparc, installed apache-perl and its dependencies. *error: 403 forbidden in web browser. this in error log: Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: /home/herb/public_html/init/login.pl i tired everything in the faq and manual to little success. things i've tried: 1) i've added the handler and options directives to my srm.conf: AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl Directory / Options +All +ExecCGI /Directory i know +All and +ExecCGI are redudant and this is not secure, but i'm desperate. =) 2) i tried pointing the directory to the exact directory where i'm executing the script (i.e. / - /home/herb/public_html/init, my script resides in init/) to no avail. 3) i tried replacing the Directory directive w/ ScriptAlias ~herb/public_html/init /home/herb/public_html/init again, no effect. 4) installing the 'apache' package instead of 'apache-perl'. it makes me download the script. permissions look correct. all parents of the script directory are at least o+rx. i am able to execute scripts ok in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ (ScriptAlias'ed to cgi-bin/), but not elsewhere. HELP? any is appreicated... herbert
apache, perl, 403 forbidden, help?
hi all. i can't get apache to execute a perl/cgi script. *box: potato/sparc, installed apache-perl and its dependencies. *error: 403 forbidden in web browser. this in error log: Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: /home/herb/public_html/init/login.pl i tired everything in the faq and manual to little success. things i've tried: 1) i've added the handler and options directives to my srm.conf: AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl Directory / Options +All +ExecCGI /Directory i know +All and +ExecCGI are redudant and this is not secure, but i'm desperate. =) 2) i tried pointing the directory to the exact directory where i'm executing the script (i.e. / - /home/herb/public_html/init, my script resides in init/) to no avail. 3) i tried replacing the Directory directive w/ ScriptAlias ~herb/public_html/init /home/herb/public_html/init again, no effect. 4) installing the 'apache' package instead of 'apache-perl'. it makes me download the script. permissions look correct. all parents of the script directory are at least o+rx. i am able to execute scripts ok in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ (ScriptAlias'ed to cgi-bin/), but not elsewhere. HELP? any is appreicated... herbert
Re: apache, perl, 403 forbidden, help?
SNIP 1) i've added the handler and options directives to my srm.conf: AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl Directory / Options +All +ExecCGI /Directory i know +All and +ExecCGI are redudant and this is not secure, but i'm desperate. =) You shouldn't have a + in front of All and ExecCGI. I'm not sure if you're just doing it for empahsis, but that could be your problem. Make sure your permissions are at least 755. 2) i tried pointing the directory to the exact directory where i'm executing the script (i.e. / - /home/herb/public_html/init, my script resides in init/) to no avail. 3) i tried replacing the Directory directive w/ ScriptAlias ~herb/public_html/init /home/herb/public_html/init again, no effect. 4) installing the 'apache' package instead of 'apache-perl'. it makes me download the script. permissions look correct. all parents of the script directory are at least o+rx. i am able to execute scripts ok in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ (ScriptAlias'ed to cgi-bin/), but not elsewhere. HELP? any is appreicated... herbert -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null pgpSNG8hTeZuZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apache, perl, 403 forbidden, help?
It might be that you don't have it set up as a handler. Look in /etc/apache/srm.conf for AddHandler cgi-script .cgi I think it's commented out by default. Just uncomment it, and change your script's extenstion to .cgi (You could add .pl as a handler, but it's better just to stick with cgi). Hope that helps, Rob
