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[Russ Kepler <address@concealed>]

On Friday 09 August 2002 07:11 pm, you wrote:
> I've installed Sympa 3.2.1 (from the cooker rpms) on my Mandrake 8.2
> system, and am having some interesting problems.  I'd like this to run
> under my regular Apache 1.3 server, so was using VirtualHosts in the Apache
> configuration.  In that config it will run code as suexec so the list
> management will run as user sympa - but the problem I'm encountering is
> that going through ScriptAlias fails by generating non-working commands
> (that suexec won't run).
>
> Is anyone running this sort of configuration anywhere?

This is really quite strange, but that may be a function of my lack of 
understanding of CGI.  When I don't try to use the suexec mode most all of 
the functions execute correctly.  When I use suexec (and CGI::Fast) none of 
the gci functions execute correctly.  In wwsympa.fcgi there's a 
get_parameters() function that's looking at the PATH_INFO environment 
variable, and there's nothing there.  I can hack it to use SCRIPT_NAME, and 
things work.  There's a second problem in that the $ENV{'SCRIPT_NAME'}
was being used as the cgi root, so I changes that after the call to 
get_parameters with $param->{'path_cgi'} = $ENV{'SCRIPT_URI'}.  This seem to 
be working, but I wonder if I screwed something up in doing this?