getting 403/Forbidden on new install at http://localhost:10401/tpp/cgi-bin/tpp

Malcolm Cook

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Jun 8, 2022, 5:25:02 PM6/8/22

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I just finished building and installing TPP under centos7

Following Testing the installation with a sample dataset on I navigate to http://localhost:10401/tpp/cgi-bin/tpp_gui.pl

I am running apache as user 'apache'

It returns 403/Forbidden

I think I must have some permissions/ownership wrong somewhere

The error log shows:

Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: /usr/local/tpp/cgi-bin/tpp_gui.pl

This should not be since the installed httpd-2.4-tpp-1.conf indeed has this stanza:

Alias //tpp/cgi-bin "/usr/local/tpp/cgi-bin"

<Directory "/usr/local/tpp/cgi-bin">
Options MultiViews ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .pl .cgi

...

Any ideas?

Here are some more configuration diagnostics that might help...

the CGI program is executable by anyone and owned by user tpp:

ls -la /usr/local/tpp/cgi-bin/tpp_gui.pl
-r-xr-xr-x 1 tpp tpp 484152 Jun 8 14:19 /usr/local/tpp/cgi-bin/tpp_gui.pl

Below I review the ownership of directories within /usr/local/tpp

David Shteynberg

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Jun 8, 2022, 6:04:27 PM6/8/22

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It sounds like you are making progress get this installed and running. Can you check the apache error logs to see if they hold the next clue?

Thanks,

David

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Malcolm Cook

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Jun 8, 2022, 6:14:17 PM6/8/22

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hi again

yes, I reported the only entry after fresh restart of apache and accessing that url I get the following in the error log:

[Wed Jun 08 17:08:31.331141 2022] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 4451] AH00163: Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS) configured -- resuming normal operations
[Wed Jun 08 17:08:31.331189 2022] [core:notice] [pid 4451] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND'
[Wed Jun 08 17:08:39.167358 2022] [cgi:error] [pid 4453] [client 127.0.0.1:44684] Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: /usr/local/tpp/cgi-bin/tpp_gui.pl

corresponding to this in the access log:

127.0.0.1 - - [08/Jun/2022:17:08:39 -0500] "GET /tpp/cgi-bin/tpp_gui.pl HTTP/1.1" 403 224 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0"

Malcolm Cook

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Jun 8, 2022, 6:17:49 PM6/8/22

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an oddity re: the error message is it says " ExecCGI is off in this directory: /usr/local/tpp/cgi-bin/tpp_gui.pl" but it names a file, not a directory.

...maybe nothing.

Malcolm Cook

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Jun 8, 2022, 6:37:34 PM6/8/22

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Things I've tried and failed (with an `apachectl restart` after each)

sudo chown -R apache.apache /usr/local/tpp/cgi-bin;
sudo chown -R apache.apache /usr/local/tpp
sudo chmod 755 -R apache.apache /usr/local/tpp
disabled other /etc/httpd/conf.d/

FIXED! There was interference from another app being served (incorrectly) on this server.

Mea culpa,

~ Malcolm

David Shteynberg

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Jun 8, 2022, 6:59:13 PM6/8/22

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Great! Thank you for keep and sharing your useful notes in this process. Let us know if you encounter other issues or have any questions.

Cheers,

David

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