[pca] PCA Proxy Troubles

[Martin Paul]

Hi,

> Connecting to localhost|127.0.0.1|:3128... connected.
> Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
> 11:18:21 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

I assume you already checked whether the web proxy on localhost is 
working fine (with some other application than pca/wget)? It's 
impossible to say whether this 403 comes from the proxy or the webserver 
itself.

Next thing to check would be the log files (access_log/error_log) of the 
apache web server (under /var/apache*/logs, if you're using Sun's 
apache). If it's really a permission problem with the CGI, this should 
tell you.

Then I'd recommend to set "debug=1" in the proxy's configuration file 
(pca-proxy.conf) and look at /tmp/pca-proxy-debug.txt. It will show you 
debug output of pca-proxy.cgi.

> The cgi-file is owned by our apache user, our pca download directory
 > is owned by the apache user, /etc/pca.conf is owned by our apache user.

There's one important change concerning the config files in pca version 
20081024-01 - the CGI will not read any pca.conf files anymore, only 
pca-proxy.conf. This was necessary as there was a lot of confusion when 
running pca and pca-proxy.cgi on the same machine. If you recently 
installed a new version of pca or enabled auto update, this might be a 
point to check.

If this doesn't help you to resolve the problem, please post relevant 
lines from the above mentioned log files, pca config files and exact 
commands you use for further diagnosis.

Martin.