Eureka! I found it!
I have been futzing with this problem all day. I installed "awstats" to
start getting better stats on my web server usage. It worked like a
charm on my test box but failed on my production box. After looking too
long in the wrong places I finally found the problem. It is selinux.
Symptoms were, when I attempted to look at the awstats page, which is a
perl script, I got the following in my Apache error_log:
...(13)Permission denied: exec of
'/usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl' failed
...Premature end of script headers: awstats.pl
I checked all of the permissions of everything and everything was right.
Finally I found a post that mentioned looking for errors
in /var/log/messages. I look there for other things I don't know I never
thought to look there for this. Anyway, when I looked there I saw:
...kernel: audit(1146243585.213:27): avc: denied { execute } for
pid=20973 comm="httpd" name="awstats.pl" dev=dm-0 ino=1082675
scontext=root:system_r:httpd_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:usr_t
tclass=file
I turned off selinux with the "setenforce 0" command and it started
working.
Now, the problem here is that I really do not want to run my production
server without selinux turned on and was not able to figure out how to
correct the conflict. Anybody that could offer a pointer in the right
direction will be my new best friend :)
