[Tutor] apache python cgi sockets error 13 (resend after joining the tutorial list)

[Felix Dietrich]

Stewart Lawton <jstewartlawton at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> Hi I have tried Python TCPIP sockets and Unix sockets processed in a
> python cgi script, called from apache under fedora19. In both cases a
> permissions error is returned at sock.connect(). I have tried changing
> permissions x and r w on ALL of user, group, other to no avail. In
> both cases the cgi script runs if directly executed from
> /var/www/cgi-bin with no apache involvement.

Make sure that you not only set the permissions for the socket file but
also for the directories leading to the file.  The man-pages for AF_UNIX
(man unix) state under the section NOTES:

    In the Linux implementation, sockets which are visible in the
    filesystem honor the permissions of the directory they are in.
    Their owner, group and their permissions can be changed.  Creation
    of a new socket will fail if the process does not have write and
    search (execute) permission on the directory the socket is created
    in.  Connecting to the socket object requires read/write permission.

> server_address = '../../.././home/johnlawton/workspace/myUnixSock/uds_socket'

You are using a relative path here.  Are you certain about the working
directory of the interpreter?

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Felix Dietrich