Web server or hobbit? 🔗 link

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Everett, Vernon wrote:

Hi all

I am installing a new Hobbit server, running 4.1.2p1 on Solaris 10 with
Apache 2.2.0
It's starting to look good. I get the main hobbit page come up, and many
green faces smiling at me.
However, whenever I click on a face, or any menu option that runs a
script, my browser opens a dialogue box and wants to start a download.

When I go to the Hobbit home page with the same browser, it all works
OK, so I am certain it's either a stuff-up with my Hobbit install, or an
Apache server config problem.
Everything in the ~hobbit/cgi-* is readable and executable by all.

What's happening here? Have I missed something?

-----Original Message-----
From: user-5623b4f246b3@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-5623b4f246b3@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Friday, 21 July 2006 1:32 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Web server or hobbit?

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Everett, Vernon wrote:

Hi all

I am installing a new Hobbit server, running 4.1.2p1 on Solaris 10 
with Apache 2.2.0 It's starting to look good. I get the main hobbit 
page come up, and many green faces smiling at me.
However, whenever I click on a face, or any menu option that runs a 
script, my browser opens a dialogue box and wants to start a download.

When I go to the Hobbit home page with the same browser, it all works 
OK, so I am certain it's either a stuff-up with my Hobbit install, or 
an Apache server config problem.
Everything in the ~hobbit/cgi-* is readable and executable by all.

What's happening here? Have I missed something?

You need to configure apache so that it knows that the cgi directories are indeed just that :)

Something like this

   ScriptAlias /hobbit-cgi/ "/usr/lib/hobbit/cgi-bin/"
   <Directory "/usr/lib/hobbit/cgi-bin">
       AllowOverride None
       Options ExecCGI Includes
   </Directory>
   ScriptAlias /hobbit-seccgi/ "/usr/lib/hobbit/cgi-secure/"
   <Directory "/usr/lib/hobbit/cgi-secure">
       AllowOverride None
       Options ExecCGI Includes
   </Directory>


--
Kolbjørn Barmen
UNINETT Driftsenter

-----Original Message-----
From: Everett, Vernon [mailto:user-36f80bd657a9@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Friday, 21 July 2006 1:46 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Web server or hobbit?

Yep, I got that.
Took what what generated in the ~hobbit/server/etc/hobbit-apache.conf and tacked it on the end of the httpd.conf.
(This has always worked for me in the past) See below for settings.

Regards
   Vernon

--- from httpd.conf ---
# NB: The "Alias" line below must NOT be used if you have
#     the Hobbit webfiles as the root URL. In that case,
#     you should instead set this:
#
#          DocumentRoot /export/home/hobbit//server/www

Alias /hobbit/  "/export/home/hobbit/server/www/"
<Directory "/export/home/hobbit/server/www">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

ScriptAlias /hobbit-cgi/ "/export/home/hobbit/cgi-bin/"
<Directory "/export/home/hobbit/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options ExecCGI Includes
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

ScriptAlias /hobbit-seccgi/ "/export/home/hobbit/cgi-secure/"
<Directory "/export/home/hobbit/cgi-secure">
    AllowOverride None
    Options ExecCGI Includes
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all

    # Password file where users with access to these scripts are kept.
    # Create it with "htpasswd -c /export/home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitpasswd USERNAME"
    # Add more users / change passwords with "htpasswd /export/home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitpasswd USERNAME"

    AuthUserFile /export/home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitpasswd
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Hobbit Administration"
    Require valid-user
</Directory

--- End ---


-----Original Message-----
From: user-5623b4f246b3@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-5623b4f246b3@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, 21 July 2006 1:32 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Web server or hobbit?

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Everett, Vernon wrote:

Hi all

I am installing a new Hobbit server, running 4.1.2p1 on Solaris 10 
with Apache 2.2.0 It's starting to look good. I get the main hobbit 
page come up, and many green faces smiling at me.
However, whenever I click on a face, or any menu option that runs a 
script, my browser opens a dialogue box and wants to start a download.

When I go to the Hobbit home page with the same browser, it all works 
OK, so I am certain it's either a stuff-up with my Hobbit install, or 
an Apache server config problem.
Everything in the ~hobbit/cgi-* is readable and executable by all.

What's happening here? Have I missed something?

You need to configure apache so that it knows that the cgi directories are indeed just that :)

Something like this

   ScriptAlias /hobbit-cgi/ "/usr/lib/hobbit/cgi-bin/"
   <Directory "/usr/lib/hobbit/cgi-bin">
       AllowOverride None
       Options ExecCGI Includes
   </Directory>
   ScriptAlias /hobbit-seccgi/ "/usr/lib/hobbit/cgi-secure/"
   <Directory "/usr/lib/hobbit/cgi-secure">
       AllowOverride None
       Options ExecCGI Includes
   </Directory>


--
Kolbjørn Barmen
UNINETT Driftsenter

On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 01:09:59PM +0800, Everett, Vernon wrote:

Hi all

I am installing a new Hobbit server, running 4.1.2p1 on Solaris 10 with
Apache 2.2.0
It's starting to look good. I get the main hobbit page come up, and many
green faces smiling at me.
However, whenever I click on a face, or any menu option that runs a
script, my browser opens a dialogue box and wants to start a download.

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Friday, 21 July 2006 2:59 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Web server or hobbit?

On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 01:09:59PM +0800, Everett, Vernon wrote:

Hi all

I am installing a new Hobbit server, running 4.1.2p1 on Solaris 10 
with Apache 2.2.0 It's starting to look good. I get the main hobbit 
page come up, and many green faces smiling at me.
However, whenever I click on a face, or any menu option that runs a 
script, my browser opens a dialogue box and wants to start a download.

If you do download it, then what's in the file - a shell script, or an
HTML document ?

If it's a shell script, then your cgi directories are not seen as such,
and you're just getting the shell script sent back to you as a plain
file. If it's an HTML document, then the CGI program runs and generates
the correct response - in that case, I suspect that your webserver
doesn't provide the right Content-type header, although the Hobbit CGI
programs all try their best to set this correctly.

If you've got something like "curl" installed then running 
   curl -i http://hobbit-cgi/..... |more will show you the headers sent
by the webserver. If you dont have that, then you can just telnet to the
webserver on port 80, and send it
   GET http://hobbit-cgi/.....
   <hit enter twice>


Regards,
Henrik