file permissions and CGI scripts

indapa has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I am trying to run a CGI script and I keep getting the following message displayed on my browser (I am using the handy CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser) method.

Software error:

Permission denied
[download]

But when I my script from the command line I get no problems. I did a chmod 755 on my script and it did not help. When I run my script from the command line I get no problems, but I think ownership/permission is perhaps different when running it from the command line. I'm not sure what else to do, any comments would be appreciated.

Comment on file permissions and CGI scripts Download Code

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: file permissions and CGI scripts by tinman (Curate) on Apr 28, 2001 at 03:13 UTC
Your webserver probably (most certainly) does not have the same permissions as you do.. Webservers run under the user nobody or a similarly low power account.. Check to see the user/group that the webserver is running (in Apache, httpd.conf has this or defaults to nobody:nobody).. Change the CGI script ownership to your webserver account (best course), and make sure the access permissions are set right as well HTH	[reply]
Re: file permissions and CGI scripts by isotope (Deacon) on Apr 28, 2001 at 03:11 UTC
Is your script trying to access another file somewhere to which you might have sufficient permissions, but the webserver does not? --isotope http://www.skylab.org/~isotope/	[reply]