[PLUG] Centos 4.6 apache and perl scripts...

[Ken Stephens]

Michael C. Robinson wrote:
> -bash-3.00$ ls -l
> total 24
> drwxr-xr-x  2 spam spam 4096 Aug 21 04:37 bin
> drwxr-xr-x  3 spam spam 4096 Aug 23 15:43 config
> drwx------  2 spam spam 4096 Aug 21 09:05 private
> drwxr-xr-x  7 spam spam 4096 Aug 23 15:41 public_html
> drwxr-xr-x  2 spam spam 4096 Aug 23 15:47 scripts
> drwx------  2 spam spam 4096 Aug 21 04:33 sess
> -bash-3.00$ cd public_html/
> -bash-3.00$ ls -l
> total 84
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 spam spam    11 Aug 21 09:29 admin.pl ->  cannibal.pl
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 spam spam 34814 Aug 22 21:57 cannibal.pl
> drwxr-xr-x  2 spam spam  4096 Aug 21 04:33 docs
> -rw-r--r--  1 spam spam   318 Apr 15  2004 favicon.ico
> drwxrwxrwx  2 spam spam  4096 Aug 21 04:33 flags
> drwxr-xr-x  2 spam spam  4096 Apr 24 10:09 images
> drwxr-xr-x  2 spam spam  4096 Apr 24 10:09 incl
> -rw-r--r--  1 spam spam   502 Aug 22 22:02 index.html
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 spam spam    92 Aug 23 03:32 rocks.pl
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 spam spam 14207 Aug 21 09:31 spam_report.pl
> drwxrwxrwx  2 spam spam  4096 Aug 21 04:33 tmp
> -bash-3.00$
>
> The permissions on cannibal.pl are 755.  As far as I know, that
> should be readable.
>
> [root at web conf.d]# cat perl.conf
> #
> # Mod_perl incorporates a Perl interpreter into the Apache web server,
> # so that the Apache web server can directly execute Perl code.
> # Mod_perl links the Perl runtime library into the Apache web server
> # and provides an object-oriented Perl interface for Apache's C
> # language API.  The end result is a quicker CGI script turnaround
> # process, since no external Perl interpreter has to be started.
> #
>
> LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so
>
> <Directory /usr/local/spamcannibal/public_html>
>      setHandler perl-script
>      PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
>      PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
>      Options +ExecCGI
>      Order allow,deny
>      Allow from all
> </Directory>
> [root at web conf.d]#
>
>
> http://web.robinson-west.com/~spam/rocks.pl
>
> The above URL works.  Try and trim it down to just ../~spam/ and I get
> the error:
>
> [Mon Aug 23 22:52:36 2010] [error] [client 192.168.5.82] Attempt to
> serve directory: /usr/local/spamcannibal/public_html/
>
> Of course, if you try to access this over the Internet the error will be
> different ;-)
>
> ...
> enabling admin management on user admin web page
> Admin management is enabled by default by the installation procedure.
> The sticky bit on the sc_session.pl file is used as a flag to
> enable/disable admin management support. With admin management disabled,
> you must add and delete administrative user from the private/passwd file
> using a text editor. New users may be added with a blank password.
>
> i.e.  fred:
>
> To admin access to allow admins to add and delete users, login as the
> spamcannibal user and type this:
>
> cd scripts
>          ./sc_session.pl admin on
>
> to restrict access so that admin users must be added and removed by
> hand,
>
> ./sc_session.pl admin off
>
> -bash-3.00$ scripts/sc_session.pl admin on
> Could not open config file
> ...
>
> Any thoughts on why the config file sc_web.conf can't be opened???
>
> I suspected the inability to open this file is somehow connected to why
> the web page doesn't render either.
>
> I am totally lost and the documentation on this is abysmal.
>
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By turning off admin, do you loose permission to turn it on?

Ken
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