Apache's got me stumped again...

Jeff Macdonald jeff.macdonald at virtualbuilder.com
Fri Feb 28 16:37:47 EST 2003


Do you have SuExec set?
What's in the logs?

On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 16:01, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a CGI (CGIa) that runs just fine regardless of what DocumentRoot is 
> defined as.  I've got another CGI (CGIb) which seems to only work with 
> DocumentRoot set to /var/www.
> 
> Both CGIs are perl.  Everything is set owner/group of www.
> 
> The one difference that I can see is that CGIb needs to read 
> from/write to /var/lib/subdir (also owner/group = www).
> 
> When DR is set to /var/www everything seems to work fine.
> When I set it to something else, CGIb stops working correctly.
> >From what I can tell, it breaks down when it needs to write to
> /var/lib/subdir.
> 
> My httpd.conf has nothing in it mentioning /var/lib/ anything, so I 
> can't quite see why this works with one DR setting, but not the other.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
-- 
Jeff Macdonald <jeff.macdonald at virtualbuilder.com>




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