[Cse498-fall2000] suEXEC for Apache

[Cory Spitz]

I couldn't get suexec to work so I went with CGIWRAP and it seems to
work great.
http://cgiwrap.sourceforge.net/

-Cory


Cory Spitz wrote:
> 
> Hey all,
> Has anybody been able to get suEXEC working with Apache?  I can't seem to
> get it to work.  CGIs in the cgi-bin folder run as nobody, which is what
> httpd runs as.  The suexec file is owned by root and in root group with
> file permissions 4711.  The web page keeps saying to make sure that the
> target UID/GID is the same as the UID/GID of the owner for the file.  How
> do I specify the target UID/GID?  Do i *have* to use virtual hosts for
> this?  I could put the cgi in ~username/web, but with susexec enabled,
> CGIs produce an Internal Server Error.  I compiled susexec today
> separately from the rest of apache and specified the log file to be
> /usr/local/apache/logs/cgi.log, but nothing shows up there.  I even
> changed the ownership of that file to nobody:nobody (after 'touch
> /usr/local/apache/logs/cgi.log').  Do my problems stem from the inability
> of the suexec wrapper to use the mod_userdir module?  Also, maybe because
> I compiled it separately and copied it over like
> http://www.apache.org/docs/suexec_1_2.html
> The susexec root folder is /usr/local/apache and the cgi-bin folder is
> /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin.  There is a folder within cgi-bin which is
> owned and only write-able by the intended user.  Also, the cgi within is
> owned and only write-able by the user.
> (http://nightcrawler.cse.msu.edu/cgi-bin/spitzcor/showuser.cgi It just
> does a 'whoami')  So, I think I'm following the directions for suexec.  I
> just can't get it to work.  Any help would be appreciated.  Man, this is a
> pain in the but.
> Thanks
> -Cory
> 
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