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file permissions and CGI scripts

by indapa (Monk)
on Apr 28, 2001 at 03:06 UTC ( [id://76298]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

indapa has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I am trying to run a CGI script and I keep getting the following message displayed on my browser (I am using the handy CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser) method. 
Software error:

Permission denied

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But when I my script from the command line I get no problems. I did a chmod 755 on my script and it did not help. When I run my script from the command line I get no problems, but I think ownership/permission is perhaps different when running it from the command line. I'm not sure what else to do, any comments would be appreciated.

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Re: file permissions and CGI scripts
by tinman (Curate) on Apr 28, 2001 at 03:13 UTC

    Your webserver probably (most certainly) does not have the same permissions as you do.. Webservers run under the user nobody or a similarly low power account..

    Check to see the user/group that the webserver is running (in Apache, httpd.conf has this or defaults to nobody:nobody)..
    Change the CGI script ownership to your webserver account (best course), and make sure the access permissions are set right as well
    HTH

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Re: file permissions and CGI scripts
by isotope (Deacon) on Apr 28, 2001 at 03:11 UTC
    Is your script trying to access another file somewhere to which you might have sufficient permissions, but the webserver does not?

    --isotope
    http://www.skylab.org/~isotope/
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