apache still won't let me run scripts...

rose_bud4201 · 04-03-2003, 07:46 PM

hooo, boy...another apache thread.

I'm having trouble getting apache to let me run a python script through my web page...it keeps coming back "you don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/AddUser.py" ...I've changed the cgi aliasing to /var/www/html/cgi-bin, which is where my scripts are located, and both the directory and the scripts have user and group 'apache'.
(Part) of my commonhttpd.conf file looks like this:

Code:

<IfModule mod_alias.c>

    #
    # Note that if you include a trailing / on fakename then the server will
    # require it to be present in the URL.  So "/icons" isn't aliased in this
    # example, only "/icons/"..
    #
    Alias /icons/ /var/www/icons/
    Alias /doc /usr/share/doc


    #
    # ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts.
    # ScriptAliases are essentially the same as Aliases, except that
    # documents in the realname directory are treated as applications and
    # run by the server when requested rather than as documents sent to the client.
    # The same rules about trailing "/" apply to ScriptAlias directives as to
    # Alias.
    #
    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/html/cgi-bin/
    ScriptAlias /protected-cgi-bin/ /var/www/protected-cgi-bin/

    <Directory /var/www/html/cgi-bin/>
	Options +ExecCGI
	AllowOverride Options
	AddHandler cgi-bin .cgi .pl .py
    </Directory>

    <IfModule mod_perl.c>
	#Provide two aliases to the same cgi-bin directory,
	#to see the effects of the 2 different mod_perl modes
	#for Apache::Registry Mode
	Alias /perl/ /var/www/perl/
	#for Apache::Perlrun Mode
	Alias /cgi-perl/ /var/www/perl/
    </IfModule>


</IfModule>

The .py extension in the AddHandler line is python's extension.
I've looked through lots of posts here, and they all seem to center around the <Directory> settings...but I've done what they say (many times and in many different ways) and none of it seems to change anything.
The folder and files have 755 permissions.
Thanks!
Laura

sidey · 04-04-2003, 03:41 AM

are you getting any error messages on the webserver

eg 500 server made a boo boo etc?
do the scripts run at a command line?
anything in /$path/logs/error.log?

rose_bud4201 · 04-04-2003, 03:13 PM

Ok, umm...odd...but I'm getting a different error message now (All I did was restart httpd, but I've done that before and it's never made a difference. Go fig.)

Now I press the submit button in my HTML form and get this:

Code:

Method Not Allowed
The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL /cgi-bin/AddUser.py.

I'm not entirely sure what that means, actually...What other method is there for running scripts? The first line in the script is "#!/usr/bin/python", which is where the binary for python resides.

sidey · 04-07-2003, 02:24 AM

can you try setting the permissions to 775?

I recreated this on my apache 2.0.45 install and this gave me no problems.

If this still fails could you please send me the actual script so that i can use exactly what you are using and see if i can recreate the error i will pm you my email addy

but hopefully you wont need to :P

edit:

oh i cant pm you :/

rose_bud4201 · 04-07-2003, 11:48 AM

Surely - here's my apache config script[s] as well as the source for my html pages and python scripts. Hopefully it's just something simple that I'm doing wrong - thanks!

http://128.226.198.93/Apache_WebPages.tar.gz

rose_bud4201 · 04-07-2003, 09:48 PM

OOOOOOOOOPS

OK, I think I solved my own problem. In my commonhttpd.conf file, I had the line

AddHandler cgi-bin .py

where it should have been
AddHandler cgi-script .py

(either I read it wrong somewhere, or I made an error copying.) It's still not working perfectly, but now it's running and just giving me a premature python header error which I don't think is related to apache...more to my python coding skills

Thank you so much for all your help!

sidey · 04-11-2003, 02:51 AM

Heh ok,

Sorry i been so long away just been a bit busy

But gald its semi working