[Catalyst] Troubleshooting FastCGI error

[Wade.Stuart at fallon.com]

Marcus Ramberg <marcus at nordaaker.com> wrote on 08/28/2008 02:05:44 PM:

>
> On 13. aug.. 2008, at 13.40, Dermot wrote:
> >
> > Thanx Carl and Sorry Matthias, I didn't follow you exactly because
> >
> > su apache
> > This account is currently not available

look at your apache users' passwd entry,  you will see a shell for
/sbin/nologin (which produces that error),  if you pass a valid shell to su
you can use it to run commands as apache...

#su -s /bin/sh -c "whoami" apache
apache




> >
> > and
> >
> > su -m apache
> > bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied
> >
> > So I have chown apache:apache MyApp directory and it works.
> >
> > Is it okay to leave the top level directory and the datafile owned by
> > the httpd user? I would have thought all the other code should be
> > read-only for other that user.
>
> SQLite requires write access on the directory the data file is in as
> well as the data file to be able to provide locking. leaving the app
> writeable by the httpd user isn't really recommended. I suggest moving
> your sqlite database to a db directory or something similar.
>
> Marcus
>
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