700 would only be right if the the directories and files are all owned by the user that the webserver processes run as (not the root process, but the others that are spawned to actually service requests.

Example: if I issue:
ps auxwww | egrep httpd
I get: 

root      2730  0.0  0.4 19776 2496 ?        S    Jul31   0:01 /usr/sb
+in/httpd
apache    2763  0.0  0.5 19840 2692 ?        S    Jul31   0:00 [httpd]
apache    2764  0.0  0.5 19848 2700 ?        S    Jul31   0:00 [httpd]
apache    2765  0.0  0.5 19840 2696 ?        S    Jul31   0:00 [httpd]
apache    2766  0.0  0.5 19916 2816 ?        S    Jul31   0:00 [httpd]
apache    2767  0.0  0.5 19924 2840 ?        S    Jul31   0:00 [httpd]
apache    2768  0.0  0.5 19800 2564 ?        S    Jul31   0:00 [httpd]
apache    2769  0.0  0.4 19800 2468 ?        S    Jul31   0:00 [httpd]
apache    2770  0.0  0.4 19800 2468 ?        S    Jul31   0:00 [httpd]

[download]

So the prcesses that serve pages are running as the apache user.

so you should check that the apache user (or whatever user is involved in your case) has access to the files, by issuing: su - apache (if you do this from other than root, you'll be promted to enter the password for the apache account), the attempt to run/compile the modules with perl -cw /home/homedir/www/module.pm (or is it perl -cw /home/homedir/www/perl/module.pm?)

--Bob Niederman, http://bob-n.com

In reply to Re: mod_perl setup problems by bobn
in thread mod_perl setup problems by Anonymous Monk

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