I'm not quite sure where to have my perl scripts write to/read from in Apache. The data written will be accessed and printed for visitors. Any recommendations? I'm running CentOS 5.5.

Anywhere you like.. your web server can be configured to serve any directory. Don't forget - if you have selinux enabled you'll need to check the context of your data -

# is selinux enforcing?
# .. if result from above is 'enforcing':

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Thanks kbp; I think this is what I need. Does this just mean data can be read/written here according to the permissions set for /var/www/html, that /path assumes the same permissions as /var/www/html?

No .. it tells selinux that this data is web content which means that selinux won't prevent apache from accessing it. In RHEL/CentOS selinux is in targeted mode by default which means that specific applications are protected/restricted, apache httpd is one of them.

If you want to poke around try running 'ls -ldZ /var/www/html' and you'll see that it's type is 'httpd_sys_content_t', apache isn't allowed to serve any directories that aren't the right type. You can see all the possible types by running 'semanage fcontext -l'.

cheers

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Thanks alot! You've been a great help.

So if I wanted to set the security context directly, would I run 1) or 2)

The second one... it's usually easier to use '--reference=/blah' though

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