This is weird. New server. cgi's don't execute outside the normal cgi-bin directory. The problem was showing up as problems with a nagios install. The nagios front page works, but the status pages, which are all cgi's, don't work.
I increased logging to debug in apache and I get: [Tue Jan 09 14:53:21 2007] [error] [client 10.3.41.164] (13)Permission denied: exec of '/usr/lib/nagios/cgi/tac.cgi' f ailed, referer: http://some.server.com/nagios/side.html [Tue Jan 09 14:53:21 2007] [error] [client 10.3.41.164] Premature end of script headers: tac.cgi, referer: http://some.server.com/nagios/side.html I tried some nagios config things, but then I took a simple hello world CGI, verified that it worked in the standard cgi-bin directory, and copied it into the script alias directory for nagios and it doesn't work. Tried script alias directories in a few different partitions just to be sure. None of them worked. Compiled a different version of apache, non-rpm, and installed in another directory, and that works,.but don't want to go that route. Any ideas? Some details below: apache on rhel: httpd-2.0.52-25.ent Linux some.server.com 2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 12 23:27:17 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Nagios install wasn't working. conf.d/nagios.conf is: ########## ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin/ "/usr/lib/nagios/cgi/" <Directory "/usr/lib/nagios/cgi/"> Options ExecCGI AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all AuthName "Nagios Access" AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users Require valid-user </Directory> ########## Relevant cgi entry from the httpd.conf: ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/" # # "/var/www/cgi-bin" should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased # CGI directory exists, if you have that configured. # <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ##########
