Apache/Perl question

[nmeyers at javalinux.net]

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
> 
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