[Gambas-user] Using Gambas for Apache cgi

[Rolf Schmidt]

Hi Rolf-Werner,

>>> But Apache has some problem with it. I configured the cgi-bin as above
>>> (actually not me, but it's the default). Apache looks for it and
>>> seemingly it DOES find it but it complaints with a 500 Internal Error
>>> page and in /var/log/apache2/suexec.log we can read something about
>>> gid/uid mismatch.
>>
>> All files must be accessible by the user/group the apache is running
>> with. On Debian systems it is www-data:www-data. Make a chown on your
>> files. Never give the files executable right for everybody.
>
> Just tried it this way, but it doesn't help. Strange...
>
> You mean the .gambas files, right? Not env, gbr, gbx etc.?
>
> There is a test/test.cgi in the cgi-bin, it's not www-data:www-data and
> it runs fine. The .gambas file does run when started from a terminal, so
> the Gambas side seems to work fine. Apache seems to find the .gambas
> file and start it. It all boils down to some misunderstanding of Apache
> with how to handle it.

Try to login as root and than do a "su - apache" or to the system 
account the apache runs under (perhaps you can find the account in "top" 
or with "ps"). Then start you program in the terminal - you now have all 
the rights an apache server has - and see what happens. Helpfull may be 
a "tail -f" on the apache error file, to see what goes wrong, when you 
do some thing. This is a method to check if you have problems with 
user/group rights, as the error message you posted suggests.

Grüße
Rolf