[Moin-user] Permissions problem

[Gisbert Amm]

You said there were no user named apache within the system, if I got it 
right. However, user and group in httpd conf are set to apache. Which 
user runs the httpd processes then?

-Gisbert

Andre Meyer wrote:
> Hi Nir
> 
> Tried this and the result is exactly the same: 500 Internal Server 
> Error. No Moin problem, thus...
> 
> Any Fedora/Apache guru's with more insight?
> thanks
> André
> 
> On 2/23/06, *Nir Soffer* <nirs at freeshell.org 
> <mailto:nirs at freeshell.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Try to run a simple test script, to make sure apache can run cgi
>     scripts from this location.
> 
>     Rename moin.cgi temporarilly, and create this script named moin.cgi
> 
>     #!/usr/bin/python
>     import cgi
>     cgi.test ()
> 
> 
>     Now make it executable and set the user and group to apache:apache, and
>     try to access with apache.
> 
>     If this script will run, the problem may be with moin installation.
> 
> 
>     On 23/02/2006, at 19:09, Andre Meyer wrote:
> 
>      > Maybe another problem: the permissons are set to apache.apache, but
>      > there is no actual user apache. Is that a problem?
>      >
>      > [root at python:/usr/local/var/moin/diwiki]# egrep "^User|^Group"
>      > /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
>      > User apache
>      > Group apache
>      >
>      > ???
>      >
>      > Thanks a lot, Gisbert
>      > André
>      >
>      >
>      > On 2/23/06, Gisbert Amm < gia at webde.de <mailto:gia at webde.de> >
>     wrote:Nothing suspicious.
>      >>
>      >> If you face no problems when you run /usr/bin/python then I'm
>     afraid I
>      >> run out of ideas.
>      >>
>      >> Anyone else?
>      >>
>      >> Regards,
>      >> Gisbert Amm
>      >>
>      >> Andre Meyer wrote:
>      >> >
>      >> > On 2/23/06, *Gisbert Amm* <gia at webde.de <mailto:gia at webde.de>
>     <mailto: gia at webde.de <mailto:gia at webde.de>>>
>      >> wrote:
>      >> >
>      >> > How does your moin.cgi look like?
>      >> >
>      >> >
>      >> >
>      >> >
>      >> >
>      >> > #!/usr/bin/python
>      >> > # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
>      >> > """
>      >> > MoinMoin - CGI Driver Script
>      >> >
>      >> > @copyright: 2000-2005 by Jürgen Hermann < jh at web.de
>     <mailto:jh at web.de>
>      >> <mailto:jh at web.de <mailto:jh at web.de>>>
>      >> > @license: GNU GPL, see COPYING for details.
>      >> > """
>      >> >
>      >> > # System path configuration
>      >> >
>      >> > import sys
>      >> >
>      >> > # Path of the directory where wikiconfig.py is located.
>      >> > # YOU NEED TO CHANGE THIS TO MATCH YOUR SETUP.
>      >> > sys.path.insert (0, '/usr/local/var/moin/diwiki')
>      >> >
>      >> > # Path to MoinMoin package, needed if you installed with
>      >> --prefix=PREFIX
>      >> > # or if you did not use setup.py.
>      >> > ## sys.path.insert(0, 'PREFIX/lib/python2.3/site-packages')
>      >> >
>      >> > # Path of the directory where farmconfig.py is located (if
>      >> different).
>      >> > ## sys.path.insert(0, '/path/to/farmconfig')
>      >> >
>      >> >
>      >> > # This is used to profile MoinMoin (default disabled)
>      >>  > hotshotProfiler = 0
>      >> >
>      >> > #
>      >>
>     ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>      >> >
>      >> > if hotshotProfiler:
>      >> > import hotshot
>      >> > prof = hotshot.Profile("moin.prof ")
>      >> > prof.start ()
>      >> >
>      >> > from MoinMoin.request import RequestCGI
>      >> > request = RequestCGI()
>      >> > request.run()
>      >> >
>      >> > if hotshotProfiler:
>      >> > prof.close()
>      >
>      >