[FWTools] Problem running mapserv binary from cgi-bin

[Roger André]

It appears that having it out of the home dir was the problem.  Reinstalling
to /usr/local took care of the problem.

Thanks for the help.

Roger
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>wrote:

> Roger André wrote:
>
>> 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 <http://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 <http://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?
>>
>
> Roger,
>
> Yes, likely.  On most modern linux systems read permissions into users
> home directories is limited to the user and root, so an apache process
> would generally not be able to get there.  Often the following will
> resolve the problem - or you may find it preferrable to install FWTools
> somewhere less protected (like /opt).
>
>  chmod go+rx $HOME/.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
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