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Re: Rob: CGI Question

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Oct 23, 2003
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C. K. Lester wrote:
> I don't know what folder to check. It can't be cgi-bin because I don't
> have it in there. The only place I have an executable exu is
> /usr/local/euphoria/bin. The place where my CGI file resides is
> /usr/local/www/data/MPG. I created an ex.err and chmod +w it, but I
> still get the "Can't create" message.
> 
> Does it create an ex.err for trace(3), or is it buggy reporting that? I
> can run my file and receive no errors, but it does have a trace(3)
> command in it. In fact... let me try something real quick... Okay, I'm
> thinking that the "Can't create error message ex.err" should in fact be
> "Can't create log file ctrace.out." Could that be right?

If you turn on trace(3), exu will try to create a
"ctrace.out" file in the current directory.
ex.err is only produced when there's an error.

File permissions on Linux/FreeBSD can be tricky.
The process that runs your Euphoria CGI program
probably runs as a different user id than you.

On RapidEuphoria.com (FreeBSD) CGI programs run
under user "nobody" with the group set to one that
both "nobody" and my user id belong to. I don't know
what permissions files in /usr/local/www might have, but to
write a new file in a directory, the CGI program will
need write permission on the directory itself.

For me, all my CGI programs are in cgi-bin, and that's where
ex.err, ex.pro and ctrace.out appear. There's a file called
.htaccess in cgi-bin that gives permission for
CGI programs to run from cgi-bin. I believe .htaccess is
an Apache-defined thing.

I store a copy of exu plus the .e files from euphoria/include
in cgi-bin, because "nobody" doesn't know about "EUDIR",
nor does it have euphoria/bin on its path. I don't
own the machine that runs RapidEuphoria.com,
I'm just an ordinary user.

Regards,
    Rob Craig
    Rapid Deployment Software
    http://www.RapidEuphoria.com