Problem with using ConfigParser.py

[David Wahler]

On 6/21/07, Anthony Raj <anthony_raj at persistent.co.in> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Having a very strange problem in using python with apache/mod_python.
>
> [conf.py attached]
>
> >>> from ast.conf import conf
>  >>> c = conf()
>  >>> a = c.readPath('sandbox')
>  >>>  len (a)
>
> >>>  30
>
> The same code when run thru the a web script gives following error -
>
> [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/ast/ast-linux.conf'
[snip]
> The permission for the ast-linux.conf file is the same as the user/group
> defined in httpd.conf.
>
> [root at CVS ast-sandbox]# ls -l /home/ast/ast-linux.conf
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 777 ast 7936 Jun 21 11:11 /home/ast/ast-linux.conf

What are the permissions on /home/ast?

Also, you seem to have done "chown 777 ast-linux.conf" at some point,
which sets the owning UID of the file to 777, which doesn't exist as a
user on your system. Because the file permissions are read/write for
everybody it shouldn't matter, but it probably wasn't what you
intended.

-- David