Re: user cgi-bin configuration

["Ulrike Schmidt" <ulrike@example.com>]

>A lot of people mentioned suexec but I don't think anybody
>pointed out clearly that suexec is probably what stops
>apache from running your CGIs.


This actually is what I was getting suspicious of.

>A better fix (that I never bothered with):
>Learn and love suexec. RTFM.


Yes, I will. After I accidently managed to debug the script while it was
running in a working directory and so did not care so much about installing
cgiwrap anymore (the is a debian package, which I could have tried as well,
as I just discovered ...) I thought that maybe to be able to know how to
configure apache adn suexec correctly is one of the more important things to
learn in my next spare time ... (But you never bothered with that, hm ...)

>Also: On some systems /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd is called
>/etc/rc.d/init.d/apache.

Yes, I found this in the *.conf files somewhere, it is called apache on my
system.

>Hint:
>Use tail -f /var/log/httpd.error_log to see error messages
>in "real time". Extremely useful when you hack the conf
>files (unless you never make mistakes ;-) and even more
>useful for debugging CGIs.


Thanks, that is very useful!

>And finally an observation:
>Like most other open source documentation the Apache
>does not really help the novice user

Yes, yes, yes!!!
Thanks for tlug!!!

Best, Uli