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

[Gene Sm(i)t. <gd...@gm...>]

Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote, On 02/19/2008 06:57 PM:
> 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
> 
Sorry, don't know much about strace. Didn't know it could be useful in 
debugging my problem. Also, saw no errors in apache logs since I think 
the "sources" script detected the error and generated OK html which just 
said file not found. No permission denied or such messages.
Actually, didn't take 2 weeks to fix, just didn't reply immediately.

Possibly you will say rtfm, but how do you use strace to debug lxr 
problems (if I dare ask).
-gene