From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 9 17: 9:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serv1.wallnet.com (server1.wallnet.com [208.225.162.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CAD337B405 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 17:09:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (timothyk@localhost) by serv1.wallnet.com (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id fBA1F2n25983; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 20:15:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com) Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 20:15:02 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Kellers To: Marty Landman Cc: Mike Meyer , Subject: Re: question not asked (sysadmin - Perl?) In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011209171004.00a92200@pop.ulster.net> Message-ID: <20011209201233.G25764-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Check to make sure you have suexec defined properly in apache (it's in the apache "work" directory in a folder called 'sources", I think); it's not installed by default, and it will allow .cgi execution outside of normally allowed directories (and UserDir) directories. It has some specific rules that help make it secure. The steps are in the handbook. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Marty Landman wrote: > At 03:47 PM 12/9/01 -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > >Marty Landman types: > > > Nuthin' there Wayne. The fact that it runs from the command line but not > > > from a web browser makes me wonder though if it's an Apache config issue; > > > only I don't know where I'd look or even if it's in my control. > > > >Things running from the command line but not a server tend to make me > >suspect the environment. Check your command line environment for > >variables that might affect the script, and see if they are set > >correctly when it's run from Apache. > > How? I hate to sound like an idiot but I don't know the first thing about > that stuff. If you'd give me some references, urls whatever you got I'd > love to start learning this stuff. It's obviously starting to get important > enough to me that I don't wanna call tech support every time there's some > little glitch happening. After all, I'm a professional. 8-p > > Marty > > Website Creation Made SIMPL(tm) > http://face2interface.com/Home/Demo.shtml > WebSafe Color Picker -- http://face2interface.com/Websafe > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message