[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am getting ready to study "MySQL and Perl for the Web" [Paul DuBois, 2002] and I have come across some baffling behavior with CGI scripts on Apache 1.3.26 on Debian 3.0r1 -- sometimes Apache executes the scripts as expected, other times it tries to download them or generates an error. The behavior seems to depend on the script name, not the content. The gory details follow.
Following the directions on: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/cgi.html#cgioutsideofscriptaliasdirectories I have added the following lines to the main Apache configuration file: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/d3020g/etc/apache:CVS> cvs -q diff httpd.conf Index: httpd.conf =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/dpchrist/d3020g/etc/apache/httpd.conf,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -r1.1 httpd.conf 378a379,382 > <Directory /home/dpchrist/public_html/cgi-bin> > Options ExecCGI > </Directory> > 780a785 > AddHandler cgi-script pl I loaded the configuration: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/d3020g/etc/apache:CVS> cp httpd.conf /etc/apache/. cp: overwrite `/etc/apache/./httpd.conf'? y [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/d3020g/etc/apache:CVS> apachectl configtest [Mon Sep 29 22:57:33 2003] [warn] module config_log_module is already loaded, skipping [Mon Sep 29 22:57:33 2003] [warn] module mime_module is already loaded, skipping [Mon Sep 29 22:57:33 2003] [alert] apache: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 192.168.254.2 for ServerName Syntax OK [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/d3020g/etc/apache:CVS> apachectl graceful /usr/sbin/apachectl graceful: httpd gracefully restarted I then put Perl CGI scripts into /home/dpchrist/public_html/cgi-bin and attempted to access them via the URL http://192.168.254.2/~dpchrist/cgi-bin/*. Some scripts are executed while others do various naughty things. Here are some scripts that execute as expected in Mozilla 1.4 and Internet Explorer 6.0.2800.1106: 1. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/public_html/cgi-bin:CVS> cat foo.pl #! /usr/bin/perl print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n"; print "Hello, World."; 2. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/public_html/cgi-bin:CVS> cat intro4.pl #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use CGI; my $cgi = new CGI; print $cgi->header(), $cgi->start_html("My Page Title"), $cgi->p("My page body"), $cgi->end_html(), "\n"; exit(0); 3. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/public_html/cgi-bin:CVS> cat intro5.pl #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use CGI qw( :standard ); print header(), start_html("My Page Titel"), p("My page body"), end_html(), "\n"; exit(0); And here is one that Mozilla attempts to download, while IE says "The page cannot be found": [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/public_html/cgi-bin:CVS> cat intro3.pl #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"; print <<END; <html> <head><title>My Page Title</title></head> <body><p>My page body</p></body> </html> END exit(0); The really weird part is that if I rename a "bad" script to a "good" name, it then executes! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/public_html/cgi-bin:CVS> mv intro3.pl bar.pl Here are the Apache logs: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log/apache# tail -n 4 access.log 192.168.1.10 - - [29/Sep/2003:23:01:55 -0700] "GET /~dpchrist/cgi-bin/foo.pl HTTP/1.1" 200 25 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624" 192.168.1.10 - - [29/Sep/2003:23:02:07 -0700] "GET /~dpchrist/cgi-bin/intro4.pl HTTP/1.1" 200 301 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624" 192.168.1.10 - - [29/Sep/2003:23:02:15 -0700] "GET /~dpchrist/cgi-bin/intro5.pl HTTP/1.1" 200 301 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624" 192.168.1.10 - - [29/Sep/2003:23:02:38 -0700] "GET /~dpchrist/cgi-bin/bar.pl HTTP/1.1" 200 102 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log/apache# tail -n 8 error.log [Mon Sep 29 22:57:58 2003] [notice] SIGUSR1 received. Doing graceful restart [Mon Sep 29 22:57:58 2003] [warn] module config_log_module is already loaded, skipping [Mon Sep 29 22:57:58 2003] [warn] module mime_module is already loaded, skipping [Mon Sep 29 22:57:58 2003] [alert] apache: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 192.168.254.2 for ServerName [Mon Sep 29 22:57:59 2003] [error] (2)No such file or directory: mod_mime_magic: can't read magic file /etc/apache/share/magic [Mon Sep 29 22:57:59 2003] [notice] Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux configured -- resuming normal operations [Mon Sep 29 22:57:59 2003] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/lib/apache/suexec) [Mon Sep 29 22:57:59 2003] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log/apache# tail -n 4 suexec.log [2003-09-29 23:01:55]: info: (target/actual) uid: (dpchrist/dpchrist) gid: (dpchrist/dpchrist) cmd: foo.pl [2003-09-29 23:02:06]: info: (target/actual) uid: (dpchrist/dpchrist) gid: (dpchrist/dpchrist) cmd: intro4.pl [2003-09-29 23:02:15]: info: (target/actual) uid: (dpchrist/dpchrist) gid: (dpchrist/dpchrist) cmd: intro5.pl [2003-09-29 23:02:38]: info: (target/actual) uid: (dpchrist/dpchrist) gid: (dpchrist/dpchrist) cmd: bar.pl Here is the script directory: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/public_html/cgi-bin:CVS> ls -al total 36 drwxr-xr-x 3 dpchrist dpchrist 4096 Sep 29 23:04 . drwxr-xr-x 4 dpchrist dpchrist 4096 Sep 28 21:41 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 dpchrist dpchrist 4096 Sep 29 23:04 CVS -rwxr-xr-x 1 dpchrist dpchrist 186 Sep 29 22:42 bar.pl -rwxr-xr-x 1 dpchrist dpchrist 81 Sep 29 17:46 foo.pl -rwxr-xr-x 1 dpchrist dpchrist 186 Sep 29 23:04 intro3.pl -rwxr-xr-x 1 dpchrist dpchrist 193 Sep 29 22:42 intro4.pl -rwxr-xr-x 1 dpchrist dpchrist 166 Sep 29 22:42 intro5.pl -rwxr-xr-x 1 dpchrist dpchrist 747 Sep 29 22:42 intro7.pl Any ideas? 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