To "Big Cheese":
You are correct to imply that RH Mandrake does not come with
the group www-user. I added it with the gui tool and did the chmods
you mentioned. "Group www-data" in httpd.conf returns "invalid group".
It appears I have some studying to do with respect to thinking of programs
as groups or users and giving them permissions as such.
Discus looks quite snug on your box.
Thanks again for all your help.
Hubert
Brian Lavender wrote:
> Ok, I configured it on a development box. You can look at it at
>
> http://www.brie.com:8080/discus/
>
> Everything worked fairly straight forward. I set my web server so it
> ran as the group www-user. This group is a group that comes default with
> a debian install. That is the distro it is running on. I made the files
> so they are writeable by the group. I did this with the command.
>
> chmod 660
>
> I did not make config files world writeable, so that is the reason the web
> server runs as www-user and the files are writeable by the server. Then
> I also made the directories where the files are stored so they are set
> gid. I did this with.
>
> chmod 2775 /directory/name/and/any/path
>
> I think it would be better to run the web server with suExec compiled in. Apache
> does not come with this as defalt. I was looking at the docs regarding this.
> In order to change the web server to run under the group id www-user you
> change the line. Make sure www-data is also in /etc/group. If you are using
> Debian, it will be :)
>
> Group www-data
>
> in httpd.conf
>
> You then have to restart your web server. this is best done with apachetl restart.
> And of course you have to be root to do this.
>
> I looked over the scripts and the code looks clean, but there are a couple things
> that bother me that are worth noting. It does not use the -T flag and it is not
> using strict. The demo I am running is running on a mod perl server, so you
> may see some glithches if a bunch of people visited it all at once.
>
> Anyway, you're welcome to check it out.
>
> I might toy with the suExec and see if I can get that working.
>
> brian
>
> On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 02:51:17AM +0000, Hubert Littau wrote:
> > Okay, I'm Mr. Desktop/Internet dialup kinda user here, (can you say wannabe?)
> > and now I'm
> > assigned the evaluation of a messageboard program called "Discus" on my
> > localhost . Problem is when I
> > run the setup.cgi from the web browser locally I don't have permission to run
> > cgi scripts.
> > I looked at the Apache docs and they refer to suEXEC, and describe it as
> > deliberately a major
> > pain to set up for security reasons. Frankly I'm not concerned about security
> > on this box.
> > I just want to be able to run .cgi's. Any quick n' easy way to get there from
> > here?
> > Oh yea: Mandrake 6.0 /Intel P I.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Hubert Littau
>
> --
> Brian Lavender
> http://www.brie.com/brian/
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