Re: [Lxr-general] apache (httpd) on f8 vs. fc6 running LXR

[Jan-Benedict G. <jb...@lu...>]

On Mon, 2008-02-18 21:30:28 -0500, Gene Sm(i)th <gd...@gm...> wrote:
> Gene Smith wrote, On 02/03/2008 12:26 AM:
> > I have a LXR setup on fc6 that works fine. When I moved it to f8 (which 
> > seems to have the same versions of httpd, perl, mysql etc) I can only 
> > get it to work if I change the user/group in httpd.conf from 
> > apache:apache to myusername:myusername.  The files accessed by httpd, 
> > perl etc are world readable and executable but owned by root, as they 
> > were in fc6. These are in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/....
[...]
> To answer my own post, the reason was because the files accessed by lxr 
> were in my home directory with permission 700 and apache could not go 
> there. Pretty simple actually but not much hint from apache or lxr as to 
> what the problem was. Just was looking at the /home/me/lxr-file/ 
> directory which was set to 755, I think, but was was overriden by the 
> /home/me/ setting of 700. (Didn't realize the permission are inherited 
> but I guess they are.)

I hope you didn't need full two weeks to look at either strace output?
Were there no error messages in apache's error.log? No specific error
messages in HTTP output?

MfG, JBG

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