in reply to OT: Local Perl - CGI - Apache.

This doesn't appear to be a Perl question... you haven't shown any Perl code... you've shown an inability for your web service user to access a directory structure.

You say you can stat the directory, but your example shows you can't. (If you can from the CLI, what user are you running the command as (I suspect root), and what is the command?) If your bash script can't stat a file as a user, why would you think this is a perl problem?

Please post what sudo -u apache ls -la /home/some_user says, as well as sudo -u apache ls -la /home | grep some_user

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Re^2: OT: Local Perl - CGI - Apache.
by lanta (Sexton) on Nov 25, 2015 at 00:25 UTC
    stevieb,

    thanks for your time. I understand that this is not a perl question. I need to use the perl interpreter installed in ~some_user, so was hoping some one here might have some config experience with it.

    From the CLI, as apache, I can stat /home/some_user, but not thru the CGI, running under apache.

    # su - apache
$ stat /home
  File: `/home'
  Size: 4096          Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: fd00h/64768d    Inode: 2097153     Links: 5
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    roo
+t)
Access: 2015-11-24 18:30:06.243730150 -0500
Modify: 2014-10-07 22:46:09.353475060 -0400
Change: 2014-10-07 22:46:09.353475060 -0400
-bash-4.1$

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    -bash-4.1$ stat /home/some_user
  File: `/home/some_user'
  Size: 4096          Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: fd00h/64768d    Inode: 2187307     Links: 43
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (  508/      some_user)   Gid: (  508/
+      some_user)
Access: 2015-11-24 17:47:08.723747155 -0500
Modify: 2015-11-24 18:34:19.314602725 -0500
Change: 2015-11-24 18:55:24.365823666 -0500

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    Once again, thanks in advance for all help

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