I fixed this when I upgraded to Debian 10, Buster.
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From: Tom Bryant <rkk_...@hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 10:14 AM
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: Bug#956217: apache2: Does not run server side CGI scipts and
start/stop broken
Package: apache2
Version: 2.4.10-10+deb8u16
Severity: normal
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-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.11
APT prefers oldoldstable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'oldoldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-10-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages apache2 depends on:
ii apache2-bin 2.4.10-10+deb8u16
ii apache2-data 2.4.10-10+deb8u16
ii apache2-utils 2.4.10-10+deb8u16
ii dpkg 1.17.27
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1
ii mime-support 3.58
ii perl 5.20.2-3+deb8u12
ii procps 2:3.3.9-9+deb8u1
Versions of packages apache2 recommends:
ii ssl-cert 1.0.35
Versions of packages apache2 suggests:
pn apache2-doc <none>
pn apache2-suexec-pristine | apache2-suexec-custom <none>
ii firefox-esr [www-browser] 68.5.0esr-1~deb8u1
ii google-chrome-stable [www-browser] 80.0.3987.122-1
ii konqueror [www-browser] 4:4.14.2-1
ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-19+deb8u2
Versions of packages apache2-bin depends on:
ii libapr1 1.5.1-3
ii libaprutil1 1.5.4-1
ii libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 1.5.4-1
ii libaprutil1-ldap 1.5.4-1
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u10
ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.40+dfsg-1+deb8u5
ii liblua5.1-0 5.1.5-7.1
ii libpcre3 2:8.35-3.3+deb8u4
ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.1t-1+deb8u12
ii libxml2 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u8
ii perl 5.20.2-3+deb8u12
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+deb8u1
Versions of packages apache2-bin suggests:
pn apache2-doc <none>
pn apache2-suexec-pristine | apache2-suexec-custom <none>
ii firefox-esr [www-browser] 68.5.0esr-1~deb8u1
ii google-chrome-stable [www-browser] 80.0.3987.122-1
ii konqueror [www-browser] 4:4.14.2-1
ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-19+deb8u2
Versions of packages apache2 is related to:
ii apache2 2.4.10-10+deb8u16
ii apache2-bin 2.4.10-10+deb8u16
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/apache2/apache2.conf changed:
Mutex file:${APACHE_LOCK_DIR} default
PidFile ${APACHE_PID_FILE}
Timeout 300
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 5
User ${APACHE_RUN_USER}
Group ${APACHE_RUN_GROUP}
HostnameLookups Off
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
LogLevel warn
IncludeOptional mods-enabled/*.load
IncludeOptional mods-enabled/*.conf
Include ports.conf
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all denied
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/share>
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/photoDataBase>
Options ExecCGI
setHandler cgi-script
</Directory>
AccessFileName .htaccess
<FilesMatch "^\.ht">
Require all denied
</FilesMatch>
LogFormat "%v:%p %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\""
vhost_combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\""
combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O" common
LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent
IncludeOptional conf-enabled/*.conf
IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.conf
/etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf changed:
<VirtualHost *:80>
# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port
that
# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
# specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
#ServerName www.example.com<http://www.example.com>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
# Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
# error, crit, alert, emerg.
# It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
# modules, e.g.
#LogLevel info ssl:warn
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
# For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
# enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
# include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
# following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
# after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
#Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
# ScriptAlias /var/www/html/photoEdits
# <Directory "/var/www/html/photoEdits">
# AllowOverride None
# Options +ExecCGI -Multiviews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
# Require all granted
# </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
-- no debconf information
The above mods to 000-default.conf (now commented out) cause apache2 to not find
/var/www/html/photoEdits. The commands:
systemctl start apache2.service and
systemctl stop apache2.service
Give these errors when the ScriptAlias block in the above is uncommented.:
Job for apache2.service failed. See 'systemctl status apache2.service' and
'journalctl -xn' for details.
I need to be able to run a perl/CGI script from an HTML web page in a browser,
and don't know how to configure apache2 to do it. Googling for solutions has
resulted in lots of tricks that don't work. So far, the default behavior of the
perl/CGI script is to simply bring up a window that tries to open the script in
an editor or download it. Not useful!
