Re: [cobalt-users] 777 directories for cgi-scripts [RaQ4]

["Arsalan Mahmud" <arsalan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try this.. make the script to write to files with .cgi extensions set to
755. This solved my problem in a raq 4


Arsalan Mahmud
Nexus Technologies

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Simmons" <cs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "cobalt" <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 10:26 PM
Subject: [cobalt-users] 777 directories for cgi-scripts [RaQ4]


> Call me mr frustrated.
> After scouring the Cobalt infobase, the only answer for my problem seems
> to be related to the server not allowing world-writable directories on
> virtual sites.
>
> This is the continuing saga of the textcounter script by Matt Wright
> which has worked everywhere else since 1996, suddenly doesn't work on
> the RaQ4 when I've installed it. The server is --apparently-- not
> allowing the script to write to a 777 directory "counters" which causes
> the SSI call to the counter on the page to give me a "can't increment
> counter" error (because it can't create and overwrite the text counter
> file in the counters folder, which must be set to world writable!). I
> fixed the problem with not being able to see ".lock" file by modifying
> the script to write a "_lock" file instead (stupid). But, it can't write
> the file.
>
> Is this due to cgi-wrapper, or?
>
> Is the consensus that cgi-wrapper should be deactivated on the server,
> server-wide?
>
> I'm into my first week on this box, trying to move clients over from
> another box which will die on the 30th, so I am stressed.
>
> Anybody want to consult on this and some other topics?
>
> HELP!
>
> Christopher
>
>
>
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