Thanks for the thoughts. responses are below.
On Jan 10, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Mark Feather wrote:
To be sure, at the command prompt type <whereis perl>......Is perl
in the correct location?
yep -/usr/bin/perl Completely inaccessible from scripts running under
the server.
What are the permissions of your cgi-bin directory and the script?
cgi-bin: 755 root:daemon, script: 555 root:daemon -same permissions
as other cgi's (not perl) that are working properly
You say that your script has the .cgi extension but your error
message is refering to a .pl extension!?
Well, I have tried both. The error message I pasted was from when I
had changed the extention to .pl Doesn't seem to make a difference
either way. .cgi is the original extension, however. My apologies for
the confusion.
What is the name of your file? /cgi-bin/perl/routers2.pl or /cgi-
bin/perl/routers2.cgi ?
yes :) Sorry- I have tried both, with the same results. routers2.cgi
is the original name
Where is your cgi-bin? Is it /var/www/cgi-bin or /var/cgi-bin
/var/www/gci-bin
Why do you have a sub-directory /cgi-bin/perl/ ?
That's what the documentation on the mod_perl website said, or more
precisely the example they gave.
what are you typing into your browsers address bar? http://
DomainName/cgi-bin/FileName or http://DomainName/cgi-bin/perl/
FileName ?
http://DomainName/cgi-bin/perl/FileName
Sample code for a httpd.conf file for a cgi-bin:
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
<Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI +Includes -indexes
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Location /cgi-bin>
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI +Includes -indexes
SetHandler cgi-script
</Location>
That's great for CGI scripts (and is, in fact, what I have for the
cgi-bin directory), but that's not what the mod_perl website says for
executing perl scripts through mod_perl. The configuration block I
showed in my original e-mail was straight from the mod_perl
documentation.
Try testing a simple perl script, get this to work correctly then
move on.
Create a script called test.cgi and place the following code within
it:
[snip]
place this in your /cgi-bin/ directory change its permissions to
775 and try loading it into your browser using http://DomainName/
cgi-bin/test.cgi
That fails with the same "cannot find file or directory" error, as
will ANY script that starts with #!/usr/bin/whatever - /usr/bin is
NOT accessible to CGI scripts when Apache is running chrooted, as my
install is. If a perl script (or any other script, for that mater) is
going to work, it CANNOT have that line, or anything else that isn't
a subdirectory of /var/www. So if the perl script needs to have
direct access to the perl interpreter (and not just run through
mod_perl), then it is impossible to run perl scripts with Apache
chrooted.
Thanks again for the thoughts. I very much appreciate the responses.
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Israel Brewster
Computer Support Technician
Frontier Flying Service INC.
5245 Airport Industrial Rd
Fairbanks, AK 99709
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Israel Brewster"
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To: <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Simple perl question
I installed mod_perl from the package that was distributed with
OpenBSD 4.0. The install didn't give any errors, so I have to
assume it installed properly. As far as I can tell, it didn't
make any configuration changes. Just placing the script in my CGI
directory (and removing the #!/usr/bin/perl line) gives "[error]
(8)Exec format error: exec of /cgi-bin/perl/routers2.pl failed".
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Israel Brewster
Computer Support Technician
Frontier Flying Service INC.
5245 Airport Industrial Rd
Fairbanks, AK 99709
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On Jan 10, 2007, at 1:39 PM, Serge Dubrouski wrote:
For this configuration you need to have mod_perl installed on your
server. Why don't you simply put your script into your cgi-bin
directory?
On 1/10/07, Israel Brewster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't know if what I am trying to do here is even possible
(sane?)
but I thought I'd ask. I am running Apache 1.3.29 on an OpenBSD 4.0
system, with Apache chrooted to /var/www. I have a perl script CGI
(it has the .cgi extention, not .pl, but is actually a perl script)
that I need to run. Currently, the script is written to run
using the
system perl interpreter, with the first line of the script being
#!/
usr/bin/perl This obviously doesn't work, since when it runs as
a CGI
it is chrooted to /var/www, and can not see /usr/bin. Now I would
think that Apache should be able to run this script using the perl
module, which I have installed, but I can't seem to get it to work.
Could someone point me to something that tells me how to properly
enable/run perl scripts in Apache? I looked at mod_perl website,
but
all it says is to add a code block like the following:
Alias /perl/ /home/httpd/perl/
PerlModule Apache::Registry
<Location /perl>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::Registry
Options ExecCGI
allow from all
PerlSendHeader On
</Location>
which just gives me an 'Invalid command 'PerlModule' This would
imply
to me that mod_perl isn't being loaded, in spite of being
installed,
but that leaves me needing to know how to load the perl module.
Adding a line like LoadModule mod_perl /usr/local/lib/mod_perl.so
(which is the correct path to the mod_perl.so file) just gives me a
"Can't locate API module structure `mod_perl' in file /usr/local/
lib/
mod_perl.so: Unable to resolve symbol" What am I missing here? How
can I get Apache to run perl scripts? Thanks for any assistance
that
can be provided
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Israel Brewster
Computer Support Technician
Frontier Flying Service INC.
5245 Airport Industrial Rd
Fairbanks, AK 99709
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