[Refdb-devel] PHP files executable

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi David,

I'm not sure as I'm not an Apache expert. I simply followed the
instructions on the Apache web page how to get PHP scripts executed by
Apache. The instructions suggest to make the scripts executable.

See e.g. here:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/cgi.html

"Remember that the server does not run as you. That is, when the server
starts up, it is running with the permissions of an unprivileged user
- usually ``nobody'', or ``www'' - and so it will need extra
permissions to execute files that are owned by you. Usually, the way
to give a file sufficient permissions to be executed by ``nobody'' is
to give everyone execute permission on the file:

        chmod a+x first.pl"

regards,
Markus

David Nebauer writes:
 > Hi Markus,
 > 
 > The PHP files in '/usr/share/refdb/www/' are all set executable.
 > 
 > Is this necessary?  It appears to violate Debian policy -- here is the 
 > output from lintian:
 > 

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