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["Eric Sandquist" <address@concealed>]

Here is a sample from my sympa log file of the errors:

Jul 23 19:14:12 josiah wwsympa[6138]: WWSympa started
Jul 23 19:14:12 josiah wwsympa[6138]: Loading locale file fr.cat version
3.3a
Jul 23 19:14:12 josiah wwsympa[6138]: Loading locale file us.cat version
3.3a
Jul 23 19:14:12 josiah wwsympa[6138]: Loading locale file es.cat version
3.3.3
Jul 23 19:14:12 josiah wwsympa[6138]: Loading locale file de.cat version
3.3a
Jul 23 19:14:12 josiah wwsympa[6138]: Loading locale file it.cat version
2.5.4
Jul 23 19:14:12 josiah wwsympa[6138]: Loading locale file cn.cat version
2.8.1
Jul 23 19:14:12 josiah wwsympa[6138]: Loading locale file tw.cat version 2.5
Jul 23 19:14:12 josiah wwsympa[6138]: Loading locale file fi.cat version
2.5.4
Jul 23 19:14:12 josiah wwsympa[6138]: Loading locale file pl.cat version
2.8.1
Jul 23 19:14:12 josiah wwsympa[6138]: Loading locale file cz.cat version
3.1b.12
Jul 23 19:14:12 josiah wwsympa[6138]: Loading locale file hu.cat version
3.3a
Jul 23 19:14:12 josiah wwsympa[6138]: Loading locale file ro.cat version
3.3a
Jul 23 19:14:12 josiah wwsympa[6138]: Loading locale file et.cat version
3.3a
Jul 23 19:14:12 josiah wwsympa[6138]: Unable to read
Jul 23 19:14:12 josiah wwsympa[6138]: Unable to open scenario file
topics_visibility., please report to listmaster
Jul 23 19:14:12 josiah wwsympa[6138]: internal error : configuration for
operation topics_visibility is not yet performed by scenario
Jul 23 19:14:13 josiah wwsympa[6138]: [client 216.138.72.34]
do_sendpasswd(address@concealed)
Jul 23 19:14:13 josiah wwsympa[6138]: Cannot create
/address@concealed :
Permission denied
Jul 23 19:14:13 josiah wwsympa[6138]: [client 216.138.72.34] do_loginrequest

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Sandquist [mailto:address@concealed]
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 6:58 PM
To: address@concealed
Subject: RE: [sympa-users] When I try to run the sym-lynk wws in my
cgi-bin, I get a 500 error


OK.. due to an error on my part, I lost your replies... however, I did read
them.

I am unable to use the fastcgi service, since I am using a managed server
and the source for my apache has been removed and recompiling it would void
my service agreement.  If someone has another way to get fastcgi loaded let
me know...

THe whole problem seems to be a permissions issue when attampting to run as
a regular cgi.  It seems that for a script to run it must have the same name
and group as the owner of the virtual server it is running in. So, for the
site I am trying to get this working for - www.messianicgroups.com, it is
messianic.messianicgrp.  So if I copy wwsympa.fcgi to my cgi-bin for this
server and set the uid.gid for this it runs, but it does not interact with
the 4 scripts running in the background.

Why? because the uid.gid is different.  The background scripts are running
as sympa.sympa.

So, is the only method to correct this to recompile sympa into the
messianicgroups directory and set the uid.gid to messianic.messianic.grp?
Or do I need to create a virtual server under apache for sympa?

I tried using the c prog modification in the documentation... it compiles,
it runs from the command line, but when I attempt to call it using my
browser from cgi-bin, I get the 500 error again... if you want to see:

www.messianicgroups.com/cgi-bin/wwsympa.fcgi - this works, sort of but
doesn't really do anything..
www.messianicgroups.com/cgi-bin/test.cgi - gives a 500 error
www.messianicgroups.com.cgi-bin/wws - is a link to the wwsympa.fcgi in the
sympa installation folder, it gives a 500 error too..


www.messianicgroups.com/wws - gives 404 error

Currently httpd.conf for this vserver is:

<virtualhost www.messianicgroups.com>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /www/messianicgroups/cgi-bin/
ScriptAlias /cgi-messianicgroups/ /www/messianicgroups/cgi-bin/
ScriptAlias /mailman/ /www/messianicgroups/mailman/cgi-bin/
Alias /wws /www/sympa/cgi/wwsympa.fcgi
Alias /pipermail/ /www/messianicgroups/mailman/archives/public/
User messianic
Group messianicgrp
ServerAdmin address@concealed
ServerName www.messianic.com
ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html
DocumentRoot /www/messianicgroups
TransferLog logs/messianicgroups-access-log
</virtualhost>


Am I missing something???  Or did this "Custom RH7.2" bite me again?/

Eric Sandquist
Systems Engineer - IHMS.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Sandquist [mailto:address@concealed]
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 5:21 PM
To: address@concealed
Subject: [sympa-users] When I try to run the sym-lynk wws in my cgi-bin,
I get a 500 error



When I try to run wws in my cgi-bin, I get a 500 - Internal Server Error.
If I copy wwsympa.fcgi to the cgi-bin and run it, it appears to run OK at
first, but it seems that most of the functions just don't work...

Any Ideas?

<virtualhost www.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /www/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/cgi-bin/
ScriptAlias /cgi-xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ /www/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/cgi-bin/
ScriptAlias /mailman/ /www/xxxxxxxxxxxxx/mailman/cgi-bin/
Alias /wws /www/sympa/cgi/wwsympa.fcgi
Alias /pipermail/ /www/xxxxxxxxxxx/mailman/archives/public/
User xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Group xxxxxxxxxxxxxxgrp
ServerAdmin address@concealed
ServerName www.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com
ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html
DocumentRoot /www/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
TransferLog logs/xxxxxxxxxxxxxx-access-log
</virtualhost>

Also tried:

<virtualhost www.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /www/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/cgi-bin/
ScriptAlias /cgi-xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ /www/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/cgi-bin/
ScriptAlias /mailman/ /www/xxxxxxxxxxxxx/mailman/cgi-bin/
ScriptAlias /wws/ /www/sympa/cgi/wwsympa.fcgi/
Alias /pipermail/ /www/xxxxxxxxxxx/mailman/archives/public/
User xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Group xxxxxxxxxxxxxxgrp
ServerAdmin address@concealed
ServerName www.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com
ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html
DocumentRoot /www/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
TransferLog logs/xxxxxxxxxxxxxx-access-log
</virtualhost>