[cgiwrap-users] CGIWrap - Installation Issues

[shimi <sh...@fr...>]

Hello List,

I am writing to you after digging in the mailing list archive, google, 
and god knows what with no luck of finding the same sympthom I have.

First, I installed it normally:
./configure 
--with-httpd-user=apache 
--with-report-rusage 
--with-logging-file=/var/log/httpd/cgiwrap.log 
--with-install-dir=/usr/cgiwrap 
--with-perl=/usr/bin/perl 
--with-install-group=apache 

Installation goes fine.

Running the program works.

Now, I added in httpd.conf:
AddHandler cgi-wrapper .cgi
Action cgi-wrapper /usr/cgiwrap/cgiwrap

(I copied that setup from a Cobalt RaQ3 box I own)

This caused all calls to cgi scripts to return:
404 error: /usr/cgiwrap/cgiwrap/index.cgi does not exist. (remember, the 
request was for /, or, /index.cgi...)

I have Apache 1.3.22 on RedHat Linux 7.2. Configuration came from RedHat, 
and the only modification I added was a vhost:

<Directory "/home/sites/domain/www/">
    AllowOverride None
    Options Indexes
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>
<VirtualHost *>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@domain
    DocumentRoot /home/sites/domain/www/
    ServerName www.domain
    ServerAlias domain
    ErrorLog /home/sites/domain/logs/error.log
    CustomLog /home/sites/domain/logs/web.log common
    AddHandler cgi-wrapper .cgi
    AddHandler cgi-wrapper .pl
    AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
    AddType    text/html     .shtml
</VirtualHost>

This resulted in what I said earlier.

Looking in the error log found out that /usr/... is relevant to 
DocumentRoot from some reason.

To bypass that behaviour I did the following:

ScriptAlias /cgiwrap/ /usr/cgiwrap/
Action cgi-wrapper /cgiwrap/cgiwrap

That worked, and CGIWrap is now launched.

The problem is that it, from some reason, trying to find the owner of the 
file after the name of the file, instead of the owner.

I.e. "Cannot find username 'index.cgi' in system's password file" (as if 
the user does not exist)

Can you please help?

Thanks.

p.s. any other solution to run cgi's (and perhaps phps?) as the owner of 
them would be just fine for me, if you know one...

- shimi.