Re: Is this an Apache feature or a bug?- once more

["A. Konstam" <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:26:46AM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On 2001-06-14, A. Konstam wrote:
> 
> >The best we can tell out problem with running cgi scripts may be that
> >suexec does not allow cgi scripts to be run for users with uid below a
> >certain minimum.
> >
> >1. Can anyone confirm or deny this?
> 
> This is a configuration feature. See suEXEC manual.
> 
> >2. Can anyone suggest how to get around this?
> 
> I haven't understood yet why you're using the suEXEC and why
> you get an error in su_exec log. I still think you have a file/dir
> permissions problem.
> 
> Do you get the same behaviour when disabling suEXEC?
> 
> # cd /usr/sbin ; mv suexec suexec.old
> # service httpd restart
We are using suexec because that is how Apache is configured in RH 7.1.
It is just one of the unavertised specials you get with RH 7.1. I find
this anoying as I did with the unadvertised compiling of sendmail with
tcp-wrappers. 
Something needs to be done about this. You were correct changing the
default directory back to public_html solved the problem.

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