I'm provisioning a new server to move my site, currently I'm trying to get my test site working there.

The old server was Centos 6 and the new one is the latest Centos 7

The file system has been copied over with the same permissions. The same users and ownership are set up.

Apache is set up the same as far as I can match them.

At first I was getting an error: Permission denied: exec of...

I realised this was likely SELinux, which wasn't on the old server, and got rid of this error by setting the context on my cgi-bin to httpd_sys_script_exec_t

However, the new error is: " Can't open perl script.. permission denied"

I get the same error on a basic helloworld.pl

I have played around with the chmod to no avail.

httpd.conf has:

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl

Also:

Options ExecCGI

on the virtual host, I have also tried running the helloworld.pl script in the default /var/www/cgi-bin folder

Edit: I think I've fixed this now

In reply to Move to Centos 7: Can't open perl script Permission Denied by Beaker

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