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[mlegler]

Hello

Trying to implement Early Bird , a worm notification tool, on our RaQ4, I failed to have the cgi-wrapper recognize the .ida extension as a Perl script like the .cgi and .pl are.

In the <VirtualHost...> section of httpd.conf, I entered the line with the .ida extension as following
AddHandler cgi-wrapper .cgi
AddHandler cgi-wrapper .pl
AddHandler cgi-wrapper .ida

Calling www.virtualsite.com/default.ida, which is a Perl script, in my browser, I get the following error:

CGIWrap Error: Execution of this script not permitted
Execution of (/home/sites/site5/web/default.ida) is not permitted for the following reason:

Script file not found.

How come it can't find the script it's executing at that correct location? If I rename the script default.pl, the script runs correctly.

I asked Nathan Neulinger, cgiwrap developer, and he says that Cobalt's own cgiwrap implementation might make it behave in very non-standard ways.

Thank you for help and best regards

[astutiumRob]

Script file not found... if it was a httpd conf problem you'd get a *different* error ...

if you're saying to the virtual site conf that it can handle .ida using cgi-wrapper, have you tried running it in debug mode - add to your srm.conf

# To use CGI scripts:
Action cgi-wrapper /cgiwrapDir/cgiwrap
Action cgi-wrapper-debug /cgiwrapDir/cgiwrapd
AddHandler cgi-wrapper-debug .cgid
AddHandler cgi-wrapper-debug .pld
AddHandler cgi-wrapper-debug .ida

which will show you *exactly* what the script tries ...

failing that do you have a URL ...

[mlegler]

I tried this already, but it doesn't give me any clue what's going on... running default.cgid returns

Trying to extract user from PATH_INFO.
Retrieved User Name: ''
Script File: '/home/sites/site5/web/default.cgi'

User Data Retrieved:
UserID: 'titlis'
UID: '147'
GID: '100'
Group ID: 'site5'
Home Dir: '/home/sites/site5/users/titlis'
...

and a correct output. Running the same script as default.idad with same ownership and permissions returns

Trying to extract user from PATH_INFO.
Retrieved User Name: ''

*****************
* CGIWrap Error *
*****************

Execution of (/home/sites/site5/web/default.idad) is not permitted
for the following reason:

Script file not found.
...

I think there must be some quirl in the wrapper that allows no other extensions as .cgi and .pl and I can't find how this wrapper is configured. Or then, there is a path or ReWrite problem, but I just can't find out

Thank you for the reply and best regards

[astutiumRob]

it's no tthe wrapper as we run scripts with all sorts of "unusual" extensions.

can you email me the script so i can try it on one of our boxes ...

[mlegler]

sure! It's at the "Early Bird's worm intrusion attempt notification" homepage, direct tar.gz download here.

Thank you and best regards

[astutiumRob]

ah, but that means I have to install something I have no *interest* or knowledge of ...
just d/loading and looking at it, I notice from the .configure that it cant find my whois ...
ERROR: Can't find 'which' or 'whois'!

so, if you can email me the *resultant* .ida I'll take a look, but i'm not installing anything i'm not 100% sure about on my servers ...