Folks
I'm having file-access problems in Apache 2.4 under Centos 7. In particular:
- I have a file that's readable to every user and every application, (writeable by only one user), but my CGI scripts cannot read it.
- Some of my CGI scripts need temporary storage for some files. They are, for example, some internal log files, tnat get cleaned up over time, but I want to be able to look at them (as root). Where would you suggest they be placed? I've tried /tmp/my_private_files/, and /var/tmp/my_private_files/, but Apache fails to find even the directory.
Here's some extra information SELINUX is disabled.
I modified my CGI script to report where in the path to /tmp/my_private_files/temp_log.log the process failed. The Perl code I ran is:
my $x = ""; print STDERR "Trying to read /tmp/ramdisk/keys.txt\n"; for (split ///, "/tmp/ramdisk/keys.txt") { next unless $_; $x .= "/$_"; print STDERR "Test $x, " , (-e $x?"exists":"does not exist"), "\n"; }
And the output in the http error log for this virtual user, (timestamp and other error log data stripped) was:
AH01215: Trying to read /tmp/ramdisk/keys.txt AH01215: Test /tmp, exists AH01215: Test /tmp/ramdisk, does not exist AH01215: Test /tmp/ramdisk/keys.txt, does not exist
Using the "dir -l" command as root, I discover:
dir -l / | grep tmp drwxrwxrwt. 16 root root 4096 Nov 21 08:35 tmp
dir -l /tmp | grep ramdisk drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 140 Nov 21 08:35 ramdisk
dir -l /tmp/ramdisk | grep keys.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 11829 Nov 21 08:29 keys.txt
Any suggestions?
PS: Centos 6 had no such problems, and the file locations worked just fine.
David