[freeside] cgi

[Rick Eicher II]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman Strampach [mailto:strampach at lanset.com]
> Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 9:25 PM
> To: ivan-freeside at sisd.com
> Subject: [freeside] cgi
>
>
> I'm having difficulty with an error message coming up when I try
> to access
> the admin links.  For instance I get :
>
> Forbidden You don't have permission to access
> /freeside/browse/part_svc.cgi
> on this server.
>
> I also get a message in /var/log/httpd/error_log indicating I don't have
> ExecCGI on (I do!).  I've followed the installation with a MySql
> database.
> The only think that I haven't done is run Apache with mod_perl
> enabled as the
> freeside user.  How do I do that anyway?

In the httpd.conf file there is a line that says what user the server runs
at. Open the file and search for nobody or apache. (two common users that
run apache)


> I'm using the standard Mandrake 8.1 with Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk on an i686
> the server is  Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.20 (Mandrake Linux/3mdk)
>
> Loaded Modules (from info.php3)
> mod_vhost_alias, mod_ssl, mod_php4, mod_setenvif, mod_so, mod_usertrack,
> mod_headers, mod_expires, mod_digest, mod_auth_anon, mod_auth,
> mod_access,
> mod_rewrite, mod_alias, mod_proxy, mod_userdir, mod_actions, mod_imap,
> mod_asis, mod_cgi, mod_dir, mod_autoindex, mod_include, mod_info,
> mod_status,
> mod_negotiation, mod_mime, mod_log_referer, mod_log_agent,
> mod_log_config,
> mod_env, http_core
>
> I notice from the above that mod_perl isn't listed but I can get
> other perl
> (.pl) scripts to work (in other directories) although not with the
> HMTL::Mason module.
>
> Has anyone experienced and solved this type of problem previously?  If I
> could get some idea of what needs to be done it would help.  I've
> included a
> previous message from the freeside list that appeared to be
> connected but was
> not helpful in this case.
>
> Norman
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Ivan Kohler <ivan> -----
>
> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 22:37:46 -0500
> From: Ivan Kohler <ivan>
> To: tanto <tanto at cartel.cartel.org>
> Subject: Re: Good news.
>
> On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 10:20:14PM +0200, tanto wrote:
> > I finally was able to get freeside working on my machine (upgraded to
> > FS-1.1.5).  The problem seemed to lie in Apache 1.3.1.  It was giving me
> > the following error message:
> >
> > [Fri Nov  6 19:19:13 1998] [error] Options ExecCGI is off in this
> > directory: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/freeside/edit/cust_main.cgi
> >
> > Even though ExecCGI was on (and I followed all of your
> installation steps
> > exactly). I tried this on my Apache 1.3.3 webserver and it
> worked fine.. I
> > should have used it on the 1.3.3 server earlier.  Note: I am running
> > Apache as "freeside".
>
> Thanks for the tip.  Strange I never noticed that, as I should track
> Apache versions pretty closely (running Debian unstable).
>
>