RE: [cobalt-users] [RaQ3] CGI in user-directory: User not Privlid ged

[Jonas Pasche <jonas@xxxxxxxx>]

hi there,

> > > I'd like to enable CGI-scripts for my siteusers but if I try
> > > to execute a script, I get the following cgi-wrapper-message:
> > > "User not Privlidged".
> >
> > Problem solved! Thanks to all.
> >
> Would you care to share, the solution?

daniel? where are you? :)

ok, that's the problem: everybody has the following line in httpd.conf to 
rewrite users-urls to the right directory:

AliasMatch ^/users/([^/]+)(/(.*))? /home/sites/home/users/$1/web/$3

but what when you use another line this way? maybe...

AliasMatch ^/blah/([^/]+)(/(.*))? /home/sites/home/users/$1/web/$3

seems to be good, but then we have daniel's problem:

http://www.somedomain.com/users/somebody/test.pl -> works fine
http://www.somedomain.com/blah/somebody/test.pl -> DOESN'T work (but points 
to the same directory on the raq3!)

so i GUESS (is someone there to prove that?) that the cgi-wrapper checks if 
the script it shall run is...

(1) ...in the document root, and, if not,
(2) ...in /users/xyz/ or /~xyz/

just used the other url, that solved the problem. any comments are 
appreciated, and i'd be happy about comprehensive documentation on the 
cgi-wrapper because it OFTEN makes trouble, and "problems? well, then don't 
use cgi-wrapper... take the old cgi-script-handler or a scriptalias" can't 
be the solution everytime. it's good if things work, but it's better if 
they work as secure as possible.

cya, jonas.


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