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On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 04:58:23PM -0400, Ronny Serrano wrote: > Thanks to everyone who pitched in with ideas on this. Turns out my > apache config needed to be tweaked a little. Then I was getting 500 > errors. After 2 hours I found that it was because the damn Vi for > Windows was puttng the wrong carriage returns in the script and the > server was blowing up. The linux server just didn't like how the > carriage returns were formatted. When I write a simple script in vi > right on the linux box, it works fine. > > Anyone know of a good freeware editor that would convert a windows > notepad formated text file to unix/linux format. Before you save from vi, use this command: :set fileformat unix I *think* that will work with the Windows native vim (I'm assuming you're running vim). Nathan > > rs > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Abreau [mailto:john.abreau at zuken.com] > Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 11:20 AM > To: Ronny Serrano > Cc: Ted Swoyer; discuss at blu.org > Subject: Re: Apache/Perl question > > > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:22:15 -0400 > "Ronny Serrano" <RSerrano at heartsonfire.com> wrote: > > > please keep the ideas coming.I saw Nathan's suggestion, but I'm not > > sure if that would help me at this point. If I'm getting these errors > > should I get basic CGI/Perl working before adding in something else? > > One thing that tripped me up recently was SElinux. If your kernel is > using it, it might cause this sort of problem. > > Try checking for it with "ls -Z /var/www/htm;". On an older system, ls > will complain that it doesn't recognize the "-Z" option; if this > happens, then SElinux isn't a problem, and you can ignore this message. > > If you do have SElinux running, then you should see something like > > -rw-r--r-- root root root:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t index.html > > The triple after the user and group is the SElinux attributes. In this > case, index.html has the SElinux attributes > > user = root > role = object_r > type = httpd_sys_content_t > > The type is the important one here; in this case, apache wants static > html files to have type "httpd_sys_content_t". Looking in > /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts, I see the following > apache types: > > httpd_cache_t > httpd_config_t > httpd_exec_t > httpd_helper_exec_t > httpd_log_t > httpd_modules_t > httpd_squirrelmail_t > httpd_suexec_exec_t > httpd_sys_content_t > httpd_sys_script_exec_t > httpd_user_content_t > httpd_var_lib_t > httpd_var_run_t > > I would imagine a cgi script would be either httpd_exec_t or > httpd_sys_script_exec_t. > > If your kernel is running SElinux and your perl script isn't one of > these types, you can change the type with chcon: > > sudo chcon -t httpd_exec_t foo.pl > > -- > John Abreau > IT Manager > Zuken USA > 238 Littleton Rd., Suite 100 > Westford, MA 01886 > T: 978-392-1777 F: 978-692-4725 > M: 978-764-8934 > E: John.Abreau at zuken.com W: www.zuken.com > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://olduvai.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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