I was wondering if you could help on the following problem. I'm developing some cgi scripts using perl on RedHat Linux 6, with the default apache installation. Everything goes ok with the scripts until I need them to write contents to a file. At this point however the file is not created. My guess is that this has something to do with file permissions, because when I run the scripts via the command line, the file is written ok. Furthermore whenever I need to edit my perl scripts in /home/httpd/cgi-bin/... I need to go into superuser mode in order to save changes.
What permissions do I need to set on the scripts and directory containing them in order for the scripts to create and write to files? Do I need to chmod anything or chown particular files, e.g. something like 'chown www script.pl'? Or is the problem in the default apache configuration which comes with Redhat 6. I have already chmoded the scripts so they have read, write and execute permissions.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Ashley
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