[users@httpd] Apache 1.3.23 Configuration Allows html pages but not Perl scripts

[john knops <jk...@goulburn.net.au>]

I'm running Linux Mandrake 8.2 and I've installed Apache 1.3 which came
bundled with it.This version has 3 configuration files - httpd.conf,
httpd-perl.conf & commonhttpd.conf.

 I'm also going to install MySQL and use them together as a learning aid
and test-bed before I release my web pages to the world.

	As installed I can display the Apache index page and test.pl.in the
Browser so that I know Apache is running OK.
	I have set up my home directory to contain 2 sub-directories, /web/www/
& /web/cgi-bin/. /web/www/ contains index.html & /web/cgi-bin/ contains
test_a.pl

	After changing the DocumentRoot to:- /home/j/web/www I can display my
own index page and any other html docs. in /www/. However other changes
that I made don't allow me to display scripts in /cgi-bin/. Instead in
the browser I get:-FORBIDDEN. You don't have permission to access
/cgi-bin/test_a.pl on this server.
  The corresponding error log reads:-[client127.0.01] client denied by
server configuration: /home/j/web/cgi-bin/test_a.pl

	Permissions for /home/, /j/, /web/,& /cgi-bin/ directories and
test_a.pl are all rwxr-xr-x.

	I have also run apachectl configtest with the following result:-
Checking configuration sanity for httpd         [OK]
Checking configuration sanity for httpd-perl    [OK]

	One of the FAQ's on the Apache web site suggests looking for an entry
<Files ~> and if found either deleting it or changing it to 
<Files ~"^\.ht>. Commonhttpd.conf contains the latter so I haven't
touched it

	These are the changes that I've made:-

	    added   Alias /cgi-bin/ /home/j/web/cgi-bin/

ScriptAlias  /cgi-bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin  now:-  
                                        /cgi-bin/ /home/j/web/cgi-bin/

ScriptAlias /protected-cgi-bin/ /var/www/protected-cgi-bin/  now;-
                    /protected-cgi-bin/ /home/j/web/protected-cgi-bin/

Within <IfModule mod_perl.c>
Alias /perl/ /var/www/perl/         now:- /perl/ /home/j/web/perl/

Alias /cgi-perl/ /var/www/cgi-perl  now:-
                                   /cgi-perl/ /home/j/web/cgi-perl/

AddHandler cgi-script  .cgi  now:- AddHandler cgi-script .pl

<Directory /var/www/html>    now:- <Directory /home/j/web/www>

<Directory /var/www/perl>    now:- <Directory /home/j/web/perl>

<Directory /var/www/cgi-bin> now:- <Directory /home/j/web/cgi-bin>

<Directory /var/www/protected-cgi-bin> now:- 
                          <directory /home/j/web/protected-cgi-bin>

The annoying part of all this is before I re-installed Mandrake I was
running Mandrake8.1 and everything worked fine!

Any help anyone can give will be appreciated. Apart from RTFM & STFW
that is. I've already done this many times. Of course I've probably
missed the relevant parts so if you could just point me...

Thanks,
            John.










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Re: [users@httpd] Apache 1.3.23 Configuration Allows html pages but not Perl scripts

["i.t" <i....@ithum.de>]

>  I'm also going to install MySQL and use them together as a learning aid
> and test-bed before I release my web pages to the world.
>
...
> 	Permissions for /home/, /j/, /web/,& /cgi-bin/ directories and
> test_a.pl are all rwxr-xr-x.

you do NOT need necessarily world-readable cgi-bin

> 	I have also run apachectl configtest with the following result:-
> Checking configuration sanity for httpd         [OK]
> Checking configuration sanity for httpd-perl    [OK]
> The annoying part of all this is before I re-installed Mandrake I was
> running Mandrake8.1 and everything worked fine!
>
> Any help anyone can give will be appreciated. Apart from RTFM & STFW
> that is. I've already done this many times. Of course I've probably
> missed the relevant parts so if you could just point me...
>
> Thanks,
>             John.
 
that seems to be very Mandrake-specific; it looks like your changes have not 
been adapted. Is there an Include directive for http-perl.conf? Have you made 
the changes there, too?
Anyway, if you're on the learning road targeting apache + mysql I'd suggest 
you to download an apache 1.3.26 tarball,
extract in /usr/local/ and compile it --with-port=82 so you can fire it up 
immediately. If you have a bit more understanding stop the Mandrake 
perl-httpd, replace port 82 with 80 in your /usr/local conf, replace the 
binary httpd in /usr/sbin (make a copy to httpd.orig), and replace the 
httpd.conf in /etc/httpd/conf (make a copy). So on system startup your server 
is called by the init scripts.
That way everything should work as you expected :-

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