I just setup Discus for a customer and we had some problems with security also. The
only problem I had was that they were running through some cgi wrappers. I just
turned the wrappers off and it worked fine. There shouldn't be a problem if you
installed it correctly and there are no wrappers restricting you.
Quoting Hubert Littau <hrlittau@earthlink.net>:
> Okay, I'm Mr. Desktop/Internet dialup kinda user here, (can you say
> wannabe?)
> and now I'm
> assigned the evaluation of a messageboard program called "Discus" on my
> localhost . Problem is when I
> run the setup.cgi from the web browser locally I don't have permission to
> run
> cgi scripts.
> I looked at the Apache docs and they refer to suEXEC, and describe it as
> deliberately a major
> pain to set up for security reasons. Frankly I'm not concerned about
> security
> on this box.
> I just want to be able to run .cgi's. Any quick n' easy way to get there
> from
> here?
> Oh yea: Mandrake 6.0 /Intel P I.
> Thanks.
>
> Hubert Littau
>
Ryan Wahle
wahle@innercite.com
InnerCite
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