RED Hat fetch of texis.cgi murdered

samoa · Post by **samoa** » Fri Mar 29, 2002 12:15 pm

Thanks. I'm screaming at ADMIN now for this server (SeaWolf) since the user is ready to tar and feather me forever.

;D

Roseanne Bar isn't singing yet so more to come.

samoa · Post by **samoa** » Fri Mar 29, 2002 1:59 pm

from Sysadmin of the server.

ok here is where I see the problem ... it never created the texis.cgi script :

http://www.xxxxxxxxxxxx.com/cgi-bin/tex ... html?-dump

if you look in cgi-bin .. it's not there so how will the install script fetch it ?

Post by **mark** » Fri Mar 29, 2002 2:51 pm

The install takes it back out after it fails. If you place it there yourself you should be able to see the same problem.

Post by **Kai** » Fri Mar 29, 2002 2:53 pm

The install script removes the texis.cgi or texis immediately if the install fails, so that an unusable version isn't left lying around to confuse things. (Besides, you'd be more likely to get some sort of File Not Found error rather than Internal Server Error if the texis.cgi was missing when fetched.)

You can copy texis from the bin subdir of the install dir (/usr/local/morph3/bin/texis) to cgi-bin/texis.cgi and try fetching that URL yourself to see the error.

samoa · Post by **samoa** » Fri Mar 29, 2002 3:05 pm

The first time I ran this, this was the original error as stated at the beginnning.

You guys at Thunderstone have any hunches on how to troubleshoot this thanG?

Thanks for your quick responses thus far.

sAMOa

Post by **Kai** » Fri Mar 29, 2002 4:06 pm

Copy texis to cgi-bin/texis.cgi so your admin can see it, and ask your admin again why the CGI environment would seem to differ from the command line.

Post by **mark** » Fri Mar 29, 2002 4:22 pm

Don't forget to copy the ownership and perms too, including the setuid bit.
Maybe the setuid is what the webserver doesn't like?

samoa · Post by **samoa** » Fri Mar 29, 2002 6:32 pm

We are messing with permissions now.

Not having much luck and I don't have root.

Sysadmin is putting out bigger fires than this one.

Hope to kick this baby over the weekend or sooner.

samoa · Post by **samoa** » Mon Apr 01, 2002 3:33 pm

I had sysadmin set up a new virtual host and the same problem occurs.
Would someone be interested in getting access to this vhost so you can put your fingers on this problem?

just give me a private email address to send to and I'll get the access to you all.

thanks and HELP!!!

cheers

Post by **mark** » Mon Apr 01, 2002 4:07 pm

Are these virtual hosts running in chroot'd environments or not?
Assuming that
YOURCGIDIR/texis.cgi -dump
works.
What are the ownerships and perms of texis.cgi?
ls -l YOURCGIDIR/texis.cgi
What's your install dir?
What are the ownership and permissions of that directory and the files in it?