On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 08:21:52PM -0500, Joe Hourcle wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, January 25, 2005, at 01:06 PM, Green, James wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I'm new to this list, so please forgive me if this question has
> >recently been asked. I have cgiwrap installed and it works fine;
> >however, I have one particular script that is not functioning
> >correctly and when I try to run it using cgiwrapd I get a "403
> >Forbidden" error as follows:
> >================================================
> >You don't have permission to access
> >/cgi-bin/cgiwrapd/survey/srvy/SurveyStart.pl on this server.
> >
> >Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to
> >use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
> >
> >
> >-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >---------
> >
> >Apache/2.0.40 Server at _default_ Port 80
> >===============================================
> >
> >The permissions are set correctly for the cgiwrapd link, and it is
> >readable, writable, and executable by world, so I'm at a loss as to
> >why I'm getting this error. Anyone familiar with it?
>
>
> This is two different error messages --
>
> 1. You don't have permission to access ...
>
> I _think_ this is the webserver complaining about cgiwrapd,
> which should be a symlink to cgiwrap, which needs execute,
> but you should make sure your script has the correct
> permissions as well. [you might want to check via cgiwrap,
> non-debug mode, and see if you get a similar error message]
>
> Symlinks are particularly deceptive, as their permissions
> are almost completely irrelevant -- it's the permissions of
> the file being linked to that matters.
Also, check if your server has Symlinks enabled in the options.
Alternatively, just make it a hard link instead of a symlink, then it
should bypass that.
>
> 2. 403 Forbidden ...
>
> This is apache's way of telling you that someone tried setting
> the ErrorDocument (where a specific file is read in place of
> an error message) but that when it tried reading the file
> that was referenced, it had an error (of type 403).
>
> So, you'll need to read your httpd.conf, and make sure to
> set whatever files might be mentioned so they're readable by
> the webserver.
>
> -----
> Joe Hourcle
>
>
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