[ic] Problem with Cobalt Raq4 installation

[interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com]

Hi all,

I know that this problem has cropped up from time to time in the past, especially whenever Cobalt decide to release a new product! I've been trying for days to move a beta site that i've been working on from a RedHat 7.1 server to a Cobalt Raq4 to put the finishing touches on the site. Having a look around various user forums i found that the Raq4 does some strange things with it's particular configurations of Perl and Apache. One particular suggestion by a guy called Ross Cousens, seemed to be the most feasible solution:

1. Installed Perl 5.6.1 PARALLEL to the Perl 5.005 installation already on the box, so as not to break the Cobalt Admin Applications.
2. Installed Bundle::Interchange
3. Installed and compiled Interchange 4.8.3 without errors using Perl 5.6.1, to a user "interch" under the users directory of the site i'm putting up; /home/sites/site2/users/interch/interchange

Since Interchange "coughs" when you use cgi-wrapper, the recommendation is to bypass cgi-wrapper with a cgi-script reference, which i set up as "AddHandler cgi-script .ic" and set the foundation store cgi example to "foundation.ic"

4. Installed site under /home/sites/site2/web 
5. Added Options ExecCGI on directory /home/sites/site2/web

6. Restarted httpd and started interchange, seemingly without problems.

THE EFFECT:

At first, i thought that i had got the configuration wrong, so I tried dozens of different combinations on install, as i keep getting "You do not have permission to access the requested file on this server". When i had a closer look at the /etc/httpd/logs/error file, the resultant error that comes back is "Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: /home/sites/site2/web/foundation.ic". Now I am more than fairly certain that ExecCGI IS enabled for this directory. Can anybody tell me how to find out for sure?? I've installed webmin to help me and it does actually confirm that Options ExecCGI is running in the virtual directory.

I'd be seriously grateful for some help... as by now I'm going spare on this problem!!

Thanx

Patrick


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