[FWTools] Problem running mapserv binary from cgi-bin

[Roger André]

Hi Frank,

Thanks for the suggestion.  I tried copying over the mapserv from bin_safe,
restarted apache and gave it a shot.  I get a different error, but still no
joy.

[Thu Aug 21 12:48:20 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
/var/www/cgi-bin/mapserv: line 7:
/home/randre/local/FWTools-2.0.6/fwtools_env.sh: Permission denied
[Thu Aug 21 12:48:20 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of
script headers: mapserv

I've set the perms to 777 for fwtools_env.sh, but it still doesn't work.  I
wonder if this could be happening because of the install under my home dir?

Oh, and yes, I've been restarting Apache after each change to httpd.conf.

Roger
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>wrote:

> Roger André wrote:
>
>> Hi fellow-Frank-followers,
>>
>
>  Below are the settings I have in my httpd.conf for cgi-bin:
>>
>> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
>>
>> <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
>>    AllowOverride ALL
>>    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Includes
>>    Order allow,deny
>>    Allow from all
>> </Directory>
>>
>> AddHandler cgi-script .cgi               # probably isn't needed
>>
>> In addition, I've tested that a script named "test.py" which is located
>> directly in the cgi-bin dir can run properly.  Have you got any suggestions
>> I could try?  Below is the error that is reported in the error log:
>>
>> Symbolic link not allowed: /var/www/cgi-bin/mapserv
>>
>
> Roger,
>
> You are sure you restarted apache after making the change right?  I'd
> think it would work.
>
> However, the other thing you can do is just copy the mapserv from the
> FWTools/bin_safe directory to your cgi-bin directory.  The bin_safe/mapserv
> is just a small script with hard coded paths and it should work from
> anywhere.
>
> Best regards,
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