Re: fedora core 3 & apache permissions - please help!

From: 'Dungeon' Dave (mame_at_nospam.localhost)
Date: 07/12/05 

Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:05:04 +0100

... after inserting a credit, beardo265@hotmail.com leaned forward and
saw...
>I'm not sure at this point if this is an apache problem, a linux
>problem or a perl/cgi problem, but I thought I'd try here first. I've
>got Apache 2.0.52 running on Fedora Core 3 (just installed). Any time
>I try to write to a file from a perl cgi script, it fails, even though
>the permissions seem to be ok.

>What am I missing here? Should chmod 777 not give ANYONE access to
>this file??? Is there something in the apache config that disables
>writing to files or something???? PLEASE help if you can. Thanks!
>
check /var/log/httpd/error_log - you may get some more info in there.

I'm guessing it's one of the Apache config settings that's preventing
writing to areas outside of specified whitelisted locations. 

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