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[Troy Davis <address@concealed>]

Hello Everyone,

I'm trying to setup wwsympa on a server that already has a website running on it. The existing site parses all incoming URLs for that domain, so I can't setup wwsympa to run as a Location /sympa as documented.

Instead, I'd like to set it up as sympa.company.com. Here's the relevant section of httpd.conf:

PerlSwitches -I/var/www/myapp/lib

PerlModule myapp

PerlSetEnv HOSTNAME myapp.company.com

<VirtualHost *:80>

        ServerName myapp.company.com

        DocumentRoot /var/www/myapp/root

        SetEnv HOSTNAME myapp.company.com

        <Location />

                SetHandler modperl

                PerlResponseHandler myapp

        </Location>

</VirtualHost>

FastCgiWrapper /usr/sbin/suexec

FastCgiIpcDir /tmp/fastcgi

FastCgiServer /usr/local/sympa-stable/bin/wwsympa.fcgi -processes 3 -idle-timeout 120

<VirtualHost *:80>

        SuexecUserGroup sympa sympa

        ServerName sympa.company.com

        DocumentRoot /usr/local/sympa-stable/bin

        AddHandler fastcgi-script fcgi

        ScriptAlias / /usr/local/sympa-stable/bin/wwsympa.fcgi

        <Location />

                AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

                SetHandler fastcgi-script

        </Location>

</VirtualHost>

With this configuration, I get the following in the httpd error log:

FastCGI: can't start server "/usr/local/sympa-stable/bin/wwsympa.fcgi" (pid 9288), chdir() failed: Permission denied

I think the problem is that the FastCGI* directives can't be inside the VirtualHost, so httpd attempts to start the fcgi as user apache. All sympa-related files are owned by sympa:sympa, so this obviously isn't going to work. How can I do name-based virtualhosts 

This obviously won't work, does anyone else use a similar approach? If so, how did you get it to work?

Thank You,

Troy