[cobalt-users] CGIwrap with Perl on RaQ 550

["Michelle A. Hoyle" <mahlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just for the record, I'm also experiencing problems with my spanking 
new RaQ550.

Background Info:
I'm migrating from a RaQ4 to the RaQ550 and I used the newest version 
of the cmuExport tool (2.43) to export from the RaQ4 to the 550.

All my (known) problems apply to the main web site of a virtual host 
and not to any specific user site (i.e. 
http://www.domain.com/~user/).  I suspect this is what others meant 
by saying that user sites didn't work for CGIs.


State of RaQ550:
Clean OS, patched up to RaQ550-All-Update-0.0.2-15983, which doesn't 
appear on the SunSolve list of patches for the 550 yet, I might note.


Problem Summary:
Perl scripts are not being run correctly by CGIwrap for virtual hosts.

Description of Problem:
- If a Perl script is not set to ugo+rx for permissions, an error is 
registered in /var/log/httpd/error that the server doesn't have 
access to the file.

- If you change the permissions to ugo+rx, the Perl script *will not* 
be executed.  Instead, the code is spooled to the browser.

Neither of these is how CGIwrap is supposed to work.  The 
permissions, when using CGIwrap, should work if only the user is set 
to read and execute the script.  Secondly, it should execute the 
script, not spool out the code to the browser screen.

As mentioned, I imported this site using the CMU tool, so I did check 
in the GUI that this site had CGIs enabled (which it did).  I also 
double-checked the VHost  Apache configuration file for this site 
just to be sure that wasn't the problem.  There are no .htaccess 
files.


Other Oddities:
I can take the exact same file and directory setup, pop it into the 
RaQ550's "home" directory and it will work fine.  It's definitely a 
virtual host with CGIwrap problem.

If I create the same site name from scratch on the RaQ550 using the 
RaQ550 GUI and not cmuImport, and then put a sample CGI that wasn't 
working before in place using the same previously non-working 
directory structure, it works fine.

In fact, after I've done the above step, I can re-import the original 
site using cmuImport and the CGIs now will execute properly.  No 
difference in the virtual host configuration files for either 
instantiations of the site.  No idea why this suddenly works.   I can 
now repeatedly delete and re-import this site and the CGIs will 
execute without errors, even when I'm using htaccess files.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it!