(13)Permission denied: exec of '/srv/www/cgi-bin/first.cgi' failed

Hi,

I am tryning out CGI-scripts for the first time but without success. I have read many tutorials and followed may threads in different forums but I can not make it work.
I am using a appache web server on a Suse 10 machine.
I always have problem with (13)Permission denied: exec of '/srv/www/cgi-bin/first.cgi' failed.
I need help.
This is what my environment looks like.

uname -a
Linux linux 2.6.13-15.8-smp #1 SMP Tue Feb 7 11:07:24 UTC 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

apache2ctl -v
Server version: Apache/2.0.54
Server built: Sep 9 2005 18:32:43

which perl
/usr/bin/perl

perl -version

This is perl, v5.8.7 built for i586-linux-thread-multi
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

ls -l /srv/www
total 2
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 144 2006-03-10 12:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 96 2005-09-09 18:27 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 240 2006-03-10 12:38 cgi-bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 128 2005-11-25 21:51 htdig
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 1640 2006-03-10 12:47 htdocs
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-09-09 20:55 perl-lib
linux:/srv/www/cgi-bin # ls -l /srv/www/cgi-bin/
total 196
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 240 2006-03-10 12:38 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 144 2006-03-10 12:47 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 matajaz users 78 2006-03-10 12:39 first.cgi

My script
cat first.cgi
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-Type: text/htmlnn";
print "Hello, world!n";

The error message I gen when I try to access the web page "http://localhost/cgi-bin/first.cgi" looks like this:
/var/log/apache2/access_log <==
::1 - - [10/Mar/2006:13:08:20 +0100] "GET /cgi-bin/first.cgi HTTP/1.1" 500 1064 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.4; Linux) KHTML/3.4.2 (like Gecko)"

==> /var/log/apache2/error_log <==
[Fri Mar 10 13:08:20 2006] [error] [client ::1] (13)Permission denied: exec of '/srv/www/cgi-bin/first.cgi' failed
[Fri Mar 10 13:08:20 2006] [error] [client ::1] Premature end of script headers: first.cgi

I have added the line:
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/srv/www/cgi-bin/"
to /etc/apache2/http.conf


I just can not make it work.
Can anyone help me?

Br Matajaz

Did anyone ever find a solution to this problem?

I have the identical issue.

I gave up.
I think I had tried everything a couple of times, even reinstallation of web server.

I decided to make a backup of my important files and made a complete new installation of Suse including the Appache web services.
I copied my old cgi scripts back to the /srv/www/cgi-bin/ and did chown wwwrun * and chgrp www *.
I enabled the webserver after this and everything was running as expected.
I guess my installation of Suse/appache was not ok earier (do not know why).

I am also running into this same issue, I believe it to be related to suexec not being properly configured. I have rebuilt Apache 2 from source RPM and changed some of the parameters for suexec to try and get it working. This is what I've got so far:

[root@host01 logs]# suexec -V
-D AP_DOC_ROOT="/home"
-D AP_GID_MIN=5
-D AP_HTTPD_USER="apache"
-D AP_LOG_EXEC="/var/log/httpd/suexec.log"
-D AP_SAFE_PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
-D AP_UID_MIN=5
-D AP_USERDIR_SUFFIX="public_html"

I changed the UID_MIN to 5, because I was getting this error in the suexec log...

[2006-04-10 20:42:32]: crit: invalid uid: (48)

48 is the UID of apache, so my guess is the script is trying to run as apache, when it should su to the owner (501), and reaching an error.

When I disabled suexec by running:

chmod u-s /usr/sbin/suexec

I started getting the same error as you. I suspect if apache and suexec are built right you should just need to:

chmod 4510 /usr/sbin/suexec

I am having the same diff. Trying to set up nagios. I have tried to do every thing mentioned above. Please help???

I am having the same diff. Trying to set up nagios. I have tried to do every thing mentioned above. Please help???

I am having the same diff. Trying to set up nagios. I have tried to do every thing mentioned above. Please help???

I had the same problem, I was running a Red Hat based distro. All I had to do was disable the SELinux.

You don't have to disable SELinux completely, but just change the SELinux context of the cgi-bin directory.

Before changing contexts (when cgi scripts failed to execute), the SELinux contexts looked like this



I changed the SELinux context of /usr/local/linuxcoe-sd/cgi-bin/ to allow script execution with the following command



To vefify the SELinux context change run,


- Praveen