webinator install 'incorrect host setup'

gavin.foster · Post by **gavin.foster** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:04 pm

I can only find one thread that mentions this, and doesnt relate to my situation. This is the server response when 'checking dir with a web fetch':

Texis Web Script (Vortex) Copyright © 1996-2005 Thunderstone - EPI, Inc.
Free Webinator Version 5.01.1118173123 20050607 (i686-unknown-linux2.4.9-64-32)

Environment
DOCUMENT_ROOT='/home/httpd/html'
HTTP_ACCEPT='image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png, image/tiff, multipart/x-mixed-replace, */*;q=0.1'
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET='iso-8859-1, utf-8, iso-10646-ucs-2, macintosh, windows-1252, *'
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING='bzip2, gzip, deflate, identity'
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE='en, ja;q=0.94, fr;q=0.88, de;q=0.81, es;q=0.75, it;q=0.69, nl;q=0.62, sv;q=0.56, nb;q=0.50, da;q=0.44, fi;q=0.38, pt;q=0.31, zh-hans;q=0.25, zh-hant;q=0.19, ko;q=0.12'
HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL='max-age=0'
HTTP_CONNECTION='Keep-Alive'
HTTP_HOST='www.wgaeast.org'
HTTP_PRAGMA='no-cache'
HTTP_USER_AGENT='Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/125.4 (KHTML, like Gecko, Safari) OmniWeb/v563.34'
PATH='/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin'
REMOTE_ADDR='80.46.157.147'
REMOTE_PORT='49426'
SCRIPT_FILENAME='/home/httpd/cgi-bin/texis'
SERVER_ADDR='168.75.65.18'
SERVER_ADMIN='webmaster@thinkdesign.com'
SERVER_NAME='www.wgaeast.org'
SERVER_PORT='80'
SERVER_SIGNATURE='<ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.wgaeast.org Port 80</ADDRESS> '
SERVER_SOFTWARE='Apache'
GATEWAY_INTERFACE='CGI/1.1'
SERVER_PROTOCOL='HTTP/1.1'
REQUEST_METHOD='GET'
QUERY_STRING='-dump'
REQUEST_URI='/cgi-bin/texis/installtest/func.html?-dump'
SCRIPT_NAME='/cgi-bin/texis'
PATH_INFO='/installtest/func.html'
PATH_TRANSLATED='/home/httpd/html/installtest/func.html'

Command line
texis -dump 015 Incorrect host setup

I get the error 'incorrect host setup'. What does this mean?

Thanks for all and any advice.

Post by **Kai** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:55 pm

It means some potential configuration issue was detected with the parent process or server. Does your web server run CGI processes directly, or via a setuid wrapper perhaps?

gavin.foster · Post by **gavin.foster** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:58 pm

The web server is a debian apache-perl package install.

gavin.foster · Post by **gavin.foster** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 3:40 am

What can I do to diagnose this problem?

Post by **Kai** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 10:31 am

Check if CGI processes on your server are run via a wrapper process (eg. shell script), perhaps for setuid purposes. That can cause this error.

gavin.foster · Post by **gavin.foster** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 10:39 am

Thanks, there is no setuid wrapper to run CGI on my server as far as I can see. It is just an apache-perl package install.

Are there any other possible causes I can look into?

Post by **Kai** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 10:52 am

Can you give the URL where you obtained this apache-perl package and your server? We can try to reproduce the problem here to try to find a fix.

gavin.foster · Post by **gavin.foster** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 10:55 am

its a debian testing install, apache-perl installed from debian testing repository using apt-get.

gavin.foster · Post by **gavin.foster** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 6:07 am

Hi, Thanks for your help so far.

We have a live webserver with missing search at the moment, any further assistance at all would be much appreciated.

I thought it might be the install script that is unable to parse the variables to calculate urlroot etc., but I see it is texis itself during the texis -dump call.

Is my thinking correct?

Post by **Kai** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 12:33 pm

Yes, it's texis itself, not the install. Do you know what changed in your webserver configuration recently, as far as CGI processing?