Tag: execute

Perl Apache : Perl script displayed as plain text

While configuring with apache and perl cgi scripts, don’t know why index.cgi/index.pl are displayed as plain text instead of executing them.

When browser is printing code of script that means it’s unable to find the application to run the script. Below two lines should be your first steps to solve this. AddHandler will make sure files ending with .cgi and .pl to be treated as cgi scripts. And +ExecCGI option will allow to execute the script. Also make sure your script is pointing to correct perl binary location.

    AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
    Options FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI

Also There are some mistakes/misconfiguration points in your httpd.conf

  • Alias line should point to cgi-bin directory where your cgi scripts are present.

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ “D:\webserver\cgi-bin”

  • For same cgi-bin directory following configuration should be in httpd.conf. You should replace your <Directory "D:\webserver"> part with below.
<Directory "D:\webserver\cgi-bin" />
    AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
    Options FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
    AllowOverride None  
</Directory>
  • Try running your cgi script from command line like below. It should print or run from command line first.

perl test.cgi

  • Make sure you have read-write recursive permissions to cgi-bin directory and your cgi script. And also you can create directory or file with write permissions. If not create a cgi-bindirectory at some other place where you can have write permissions and provide rather its path in alias and directory attributes in httpd.conf instead.
  • Check apache error log for exact error message every time you run into apache conf issues. It will give you good insight into the problem.

Also this link should help you.

(Extra comment, not by the original answerer: You may also need to enable the cgi module. For me, the final step to getting cgi to work on a fresh install of Apache 2 was sudo a2enmod cgi. Before I did that, the website simply showed me the contents of the script.)

sudo a2enmod cgi

execute python function from terminal

If you have a python file: myfunction.py

def hours_to_minutes(minutes):
  hours = minutes / 60.0
  return hours
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Then you can execute it with:

python -c ‘from function import *; print(hours_to_minutes(20))’

cannot create directory : Permission denied

I had created a directory mkdir xyz with user centos

The following is the output of ll command:
drw——-. 2 centos centos 6 Oct 6 06:11 xyz

When I executed cd xyz I received the following error:
bash: cd: xyz/: Permission denied

I could not access the directory in any case
mkdir xyz/abc
touch xyz/test.txt
All returned the same error.

The solution for this is to add +x permission on the directory.
chmod 700 xyz/
Then I could cd into the directory and create files and folders.

The logic behind this is as belows:

Read bit = If set, you can read this list. So, for example, if you have a directory named poems:

  • You can ls poems and you’ll get a list of items living within (-l won’t reveal any details!).
  • You can use command-line completion i.e. touch poems/so <TAB> poems/somefile.
  • You cannot make poems your working directory (i.e. cd into it).

Write bit = If set, you can modify this list i.e. you can {add,rename,delete} names on it. But! You can actually do it only if the execute bit is set too.

Execute bit = Make this directory your working directory i.e. cd into it. You need this permission if you want to:

  • access (read, write, execute) items living within.
  • modify the list itself i.e. add, rename, delete names on it (of course the write bit must be set on the directory).

Interesting case 1: If you have write + execute permissions on a directory, you can {delete,rename} items living within even if you don’t have write perimission on those items. (use sticky bit to prevent this)

Interesting case 2: If you have execute (but not write) permission on a directory AND you have write permission on a file living within, you cannot delete the file (because it involves removing it from the list). However, you can erase its contents e.g. if it’s a text file you can use vi to open it and delete everything. The file will still be there, but it will be empty.

So the solution is to add +x to the directory.
You will be able to cd into the directory even if you don’t have +x if you are the root user.