[BangPypers] Configuring web2py to run on apache with Centos5.8

[Senthil]

Hi All,

Sorry couldn't make it, yesterday since had to leave early. Well, as kenneth said, the permissions was the issue. And what i didn't realize was, while i was checking the permissions inside my work-space, i failed to check the permissions of my workspace directory and it turned out to be the culprit; So added the permissions then. After that. there was another error from error log which am pasting below.

 Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /root/web2py/web2py/


So, i added the wsgihandler.py script to the DirectoryIndex directive. The next error was 

Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: /root/web2py/web2py/wsgihandler.py. 

Inspecting further i found this in httpd.conf

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl .py


Looked like .py was being handled as cgi. Hence, removed .py from the list of extensions.

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl


Then, voila!!  I had a  working version of web2py on my server. Without banbpypers, i would've been left with no choice but to move on!! Thanks to Kenneth and the team!! 

Thanks
Senthilkumaran Sundaramurthi.


________________________________
 From: Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at gmail.com>
To: bangpypers at python.org 
Sent: Wednesday, 25 July 2012 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: [BangPypers] Configuring web2py to run on apache with Centos5.8
 
On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 16:10 +0530, Guruprasad wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Senthil <skksundar at yahoo.co.in>
> wrote:
> > Hi Kenneth,
> >
> > Really appreciate your help. I was able to configure the web2py to
> run on apache successfully. Thanks to everyone for the support.
> 
> What was the issue and how did you solve it? It'd be great if you
> could post a short writeup.
> 
> 

the issue was that apache was giving forbidden error when trying to
access his app and the solution was to give apache the permissions. This
is a very common issue in fedora/redhat/centos/ where the default for
most directories under / is not to give execute permission to all. This
error was further compounded by him putting his app under /root which is
usually more heavily protected than most directories. 
-- 
regards
Kenneth Gonsalves

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