[pca] strange 137137 patch
Martin Paul
martin at par.univie.ac.at
Mon Jun 8 14:23:52 CEST 2009
Gerard,
> 13:13:33 ERROR 500: Update option unavailable: Can't write to
> /var/apache2/2.2/cgi-bin/pca-proxy.cgi.
> ...
> The server is configured as follow:
> root at www2:/var/apache2/2.2/cgi-bin# cat /etc/pca-proxy.conf
> ...
> update=auto
That's the problem. If "update" is set to "auto", pca (in that case
pca-proxy.cgi) will try to update itself, and therefore must be writable
for the user who runs pca. This would be "webservd" here.
> does it mean that apache need to write the file pca? That seems to be ok
> if i chmod pca* (chmod +w pca*)
You could change ownership for pca-proxy.cgi to webservd and make it
writable for that user only (e.g. mode 755). Or remove the
"update=auto". As changes or updates to the proxy functionality are
rare, you won't miss much with auto-update disabled.
Martin.
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