On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:02:05 -0600, Edwards, Thomas W. <TWEdwards@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Sorry bout the html. > > And yes that did the trick, when I added selinux=0 to the grub.conf > file. > > Any clue why that would happen? How would it affect cgi from diff > directories and not the normal dir? > > And I don't recall seeing messages pertaining to selinux in the logs > > Just denied access, thought it was permissions. That's exactly what SELinux does, it keeps scripts that aren't where they are supposed to be from executing. This is so a hacker can't stick a script in /tmp/ and run it and do whatever he wants with your box. If there are certain directories that you want to also put scripts in, notice the (SELinux) permissions on /var/www/cgi-bin and change the permissions on the other directories to be the same. $ ls -Z /var/www/ drwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_script_exec_t cgi-bin I highly recommend looking over at least the SELinux FAQ: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc3/ and take a look at "man chcon" This should be very familiar to the setting up public_html directories. Of course, the easiest thing to do is to just put all of your scripts in /var/www/cgi-bin/ if there is no reason not to. Jonathan
