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idontno eAuction User Offline I love Perl Posts: 6	Re: error: permission denied Reply #3 - 04/28/04 at 23:05:32 Thanks so much for offering a free auction. It looks like a nice one from the demo. Just for the record. I am not asking you to install it for me. I am asking the other experienced users that have dug into your coding to give me a hand. If no one does it is no biggie.
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Re: error: permission denied
Reply #4 - 04/29/04 at 00:47:31

A well configured server FS looks like this:

/root
|
|--/non-web-area
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|--/cgi-bin
|
|--/htdocs (web-area)

You store 'sensitive data' into the 'non-web-area'

A bad configured server FS looks like this:

/root
|
|--/htdocs (web-area)
|
|--/cgi-bin

You have to store 'sensitive data' into the cgi-bin folder

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eAuction is containing the subroutine 'get_path'.
This subroutine is trying to create a folder in the 'secure area' for saving your data.

If the script cannot access this 'secure' area of your server (permission denied), you have to type in the basepath manually (see EveryAuction), but the basepath MUST be different to the path to the folder where eAuction.pl is located.

That's the way it works ...

Edit:
Forgot to mention:

chmod 777 for eAuction.pl is simply wrong!
Read the instructions and set chmod 755.

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Re: error: permission denied
Reply #5 - 04/29/04 at 14:48:11

Now I understand why you think my server is configured badly....

my path /var/www/cgi-bin/. Your assumption is that the www is web accessible but it is not. The web accessible folder is /var/www/html/. so I can have /var/www/eAuction161 folder and it is not web accessible so it is fine for storing data. As far as chmod 777 eAuction.pl goes. I know it is wrong to give group and everyone write access but with a permission denied error, chmod -R 777 the entire folder can sometimes lead to fixing the error. I will look through your get_path sub and configure it for my server then try again.

By the way. I had also tried changing basepath to /var/www/eAuction161 since /var/www/auction is where I would store data for everyauction but that did not work either. Yes I created the folder and yes I chmod that folder to 777 to make sure there was no ownership problems with writing in to it.

Bottom line, don't worry about it, I will play with it a little more, if I can't get it, I won't use it. No biggie.

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