From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-10-01T04:59:05+09:00
Subject: Re: fastcgi permission error

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Carl Youngblood wrote:


> Okay, so I updated /etc/ls.so.conf and even figured out that I needed to run
> /sbin/ldconfig in order to update my changes.  I also restarted the httpd
> daemon just to make sure that it got those changes as well.  However, I'm
> still seeing the problem:
>
> > [Tue Sep 30 11:26:21 2003] [crit] (13)Permission denied: FastCGI: can't
> > create (dynamic) server "/var/www/cgi-bin/test.fcgi": bind() failed
> > [/etc/httpd/logs/fastcgi/dynamic/35830e69d0669b031643022d74f2d729] [Tue
> > Sep 30 11:26:26 2003] [alert] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied:
> > FastCGI: failed to connect to (dynamic) server
> > "/var/www/cgi-bin/test.fcgi": something is seriously wrong, any chance the
> > socket/named_pipe directory was removed?, see the FastCgiIpcDir directive
>
> It may be, as you said, that the web server user (apparently redhat sets up
> a user called apache for the web server to run as) can't see the same
> library path that I can.  However, I can't check since when run:
>
> sudo su apache -c '/var/www/cgi-bin/test.fcgi < /dev/null'

o.k. - assuming it IS a linker problem

<straw_grasping>

i have seen this before - but don't know a work around.  you probably can't
  sudo su apache
then
  /var/www/cgi-bin/test.fcgi < /dev/null
either?

....

other thoughts (debug hacks):

  * set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in your cgi program BEFORE requiring any libs

    ENV['LD_LIBRARY_PATH'] = path_to_fcgi_libs

  * set

    ENV['LD_DEBUG'] = 'all'
    ENV['LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT'] = './ld_debug_output'

    (man ld.so)

    and try again.  this should produce a file 'ld_debug_output' in the same
    directory as the fcgi program that tells you what loaded/did not load.

    BE SURE TO HAVE THE FGI PROGRAM AND IT'S DIRECTORY 777 - JUST TO BE SURE.

</straw_grasping>

>
> It says "This account currently is not available."  What's more, even though
> my user could not see /usr/local/lib in its library path, it was able to run
> the fcgi script from the command line, since ruby-fcgi seems to bypass
> fcgi.so when it is running from the command line.
>
> So, I think I am closer but there is still a problem.

i have a redhat 9 machine.  i'm setting up fastcgi on it now to try to
duplicate your problem...

-a
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