Received: (qmail 20366 invoked by uid 2012); 30 Dec 1998 08:22:43 -0000 Message-Id: <19981230082243.20365.qmail@hyperreal.org> Date: 30 Dec 1998 08:22:43 -0000 From: jerold cohen Reply-To: host@webwizard1.com To: apbugs@hyperreal.org Subject: spawn child process error X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 >Number: 3609 >Category: mod_cgi >Synopsis: spawn child process error >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache >State: closed >Class: support >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Wed Dec 30 00:30:00 PST 1998 >Last-Modified: Wed Dec 30 11:49:16 PST 1998 >Originator: host@webwizard1.com >Organization: >Release: 1.3.3 >Environment: win 98 other than that it dont run down system handels a webserver well >Description: hello I am not sure if i am writeing to the right place but I am running apache on a windows system. and I can not seem to get the cgi - bin to allow users to run cgi scripts i keep geting a child prosses error or a 404 and i have it set up like this # This is the main server configuration file. See URL http://www.apache.org/ # for instructions. # Do NOT simply read the instructions in here without understanding # what they do, if you are unsure consult the online docs. You have been # warned. # Originally by Rob McCool # Note: Where filenames are specified, you must use forward slashes # instead of backslashes. e.g. "c:/apache" instead of "c:\apache". If # the drive letter is ommited, the drive where Apache.exe is located # will be assumed # ServerType must be standalone. ServerType standalone # # The following lists extra modules that can be uncommented to be loaded # to enable extra functionality. See the manual # (http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/) for details on the functionality # of each module. # #LoadModule anon_auth_module modules/ApacheModuleAuthAnon.dll #LoadModule cern_meta_module modules/ApacheModuleCERNMeta.dll #LoadModule digest_module modules/ApacheModuleDigest.dll #LoadModule expires_module modules/ApacheModuleExpires.dll #LoadModule headers_module modules/ApacheModuleHeaders.dll #LoadModule proxy_module modules/ApacheModuleProxy.dll #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/ApacheModuleRewrite.dll #LoadModule speling_module modules/ApacheModuleSpeling.dll #LoadModule status_module modules/ApacheModuleStatus.dll #LoadModule usertrack_module modules/ApacheModuleUserTrack.dll # Port: The port the standalone listens to. Port 80 # HostnameLookups: Log the names of clients or just their IP numbers # e.g. www.apache.org (on) or 204.62.129.132 (off) # The default is off because it'd be overall better for the net if people # had to knowingly turn this feature on. HostnameLookups on # If you wish httpd to run as a different user or group, you must run # httpd as root initially and it will switch. # ServerAdmin: Your address, where problems with the server should be # e-mailed. ServerAdmin webmaster@webwizard1.com # ServerRoot: The directory the server's config, error, and log files # are kept in #ServerRoot "C:/webshare/wwwroot" ServerRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/" # BindAddress: You can support virtual hosts with this option. This option # is used to tell the server which IP address to listen to. It can either # contain "*", an IP address, or a fully qualified Internet domain name. # See also the VirtualHost directive. BindAddress "208.2.91.18" # ErrorLog: The location of the error log file. If this does not start # with /, ServerRoot is prepended to it. ErrorLog logs/error.log # LogLevel: Control the number of messages logged to the error.log. # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel warn # The following directives define some format nicknames for use with # a CustomLog directive (see below). LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent # The location of the access logfile (Common Logfile Format). # If this does not start with /, ServerRoot is prepended to it. CustomLog logs/access.log common # If you would like to have an agent and referer logfile uncomment the # following directives. #CustomLog logs/referer.log referer #CustomLog logs/agent.log agent # If you prefer a single logfile with access, agent and referer information # (Combined Logfile Format) you can use the following directive. #CustomLog logs/access.log combined # PidFile: The file the server should log its pid to PidFile logs/httpd.pid # ScoreBoardFile: File used to store internal server process information. # Not all architectures require this. But if yours does (you'll know because # this file is created when you run Apache) then you *must* ensure that # no two invocations of Apache share the same scoreboard file. ScoreBoardFile logs/apache_status # ExtendedStatus controls whether Apache will generate "full" status # information (ExtendedStatus On) or just basic information (ExtendedStatus # Off) when the server-status Handler is called. The default is Off. # #ExtendedStatus On # ServerName allows you to set a host name which is sent back to clients for # your server if it's different than the one the program would get (i.e. use # "www" instead of the host's real name). # # Note: You cannot just invent host names and hope they work. The name you # define here must be a valid DNS name for your host. If you don't understand # this, ask your network administrator. ServerName www.webwizardhost.com # UseCanonicalName: (new for 1.3) With this setting turned on, whenever # Apache needs to construct a self-referencing URL (a url that refers back # to the server the response is coming from) it will use ServerName and # Port to form a "canonical" name. With this setting off, Apache will # use the hostname:port that the client supplied, when possible. This # also affects SERVER_NAME and SERVER_PORT in CGIs. UseCanonicalName on # CacheNegotiatedDocs: By default, Apache sends Pragma: no-cache with each # document that was negotiated on the basis of content. This asks proxy # servers not to cache the document. Uncommenting the following line disables # this behavior, and proxies will be allowed to cache the documents. #CacheNegotiatedDocs # Timeout: The number of seconds before receives and sends time out Timeout 300 # KeepAlive: Whether or not to allow persistent connections (more than # one request per connection). Set to "Off" to deactivate. KeepAlive On # MaxKeepAliveRequests: The maximum number of requests to allow # during a persistent connection. Set to 0 to allow an unlimited amount. # We reccomend you leave this number high, for maximum performance. MaxKeepAliveRequests 100 # KeepAliveTimeout: Number of seconds to wait for the next request KeepAliveTimeout 15 # Apache always creates one child process to handle requests. If it # dies another child process is created automatically. Within the # child process multiple threads handle incoming requests. The next two # directives determine the behaviour of the threads and processes. # Don't force a server to exit after it has served some number of requests. # If you do want server's to exit after they have run for a long time (to # help the system clean up after the process), please set this to a pretty # large number - like 10,000. What this will do, is, each child server will # exit after serving 10,000 requests, and another server will take its place. #MaxRequestsPerChild 10,000 # Number of concurrent threads at a time (set the value to more or less # depending on the responsiveness you want and the resources you wish # this server to consume). ThreadsPerChild 150 # Proxy Server directives. Uncomment the following line to # enable the proxy server: # ProxyRequests On # To enable the cache as well, edit and uncomment the following lines: #CacheRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/proxy" #CacheSize 5 #CacheGcInterval 4 #CacheMaxExpire 24 #CacheLastModifiedFactor 0.1 #CacheDefaultExpire 1 #NoCache a_domain.com another_domain.edu joes.garage_sale.com # Listen: Allows you to bind Apache to specific IP addresses and/or # ports, in addition to the default. See also the VirtualHost command # VirtualHost: Allows the daemon to respond to requests for more than one # server address, if your server machine is configured to accept IP packets # for multiple addresses. This can be accomplished with the ifconfig # alias flag, or through kernel patches like VIF. # Any httpd.conf or srm.conf directive may go into a VirtualHost command. # See also the BindAddress entry. NameVirtualHost 208.2.91.18 ServerAdmin jc5609@webwizard1.com DocumentRoot /home/host/www ScriptAlias /cgi-bin /home/host/www/cgi-bin Options IncludesNoExec ServerName www.webwizardhost.com ErrorLog /home/host/error_log TransferLog /home/host/access_log ServerAdmin jc5609@webwizard1.com DocumentRoot /home/seemewash/www ScriptAlias /cgi-bin /home/seemewash/www/cgi-bin Options IncludesNoExec ServerName www.seemewash.com ErrorLog /home/seemewash/error_log TransferLog /home/seemewash/access_log ServerAdmin jc5609@webwizard1.com DocumentRoot /home/steveuphol/www ScriptAlias /cgi-bin /home/steveuphol/www/cgi-bin Options IncludesNoExec ServerName www.steveuphol.com ErrorLog /home/steveuphol/error_log TransferLog /home/steveuphol/access_log ServerAdmin jc5609@webwizard1.com DocumentRoot /home/omniteq/www ScriptAlias /cgi-bin /home/omniteq/www/cgi-bin Options IncludesNoExec ServerName www.omniteq-computers.com ErrorLog /home/omniteq/error_log TransferLog /home/omniteq/access_log ServerAdmin jc5609@webwizard1.com DocumentRoot /home/storagequip/www ScriptAlias /cgi-bin /home/storagequip/www/cgi-bin Options IncludesNoExec ServerName www.storagequip.com ErrorLog /home/storagequip/error_log TransferLog /home/storagequip/access_log ServerAdmin jc5609@webwizardhost.com DocumentRoot /home/mail/www ScriptAlias /cgi-bin /home/mail/www/cgi-bin Options IncludesNoExec ServerName mail.webwizardhost.com ErrorLog /home/mail/error_log TransferLog /home/mail/access_log # access.conf: Global access configuration # Online docs at http://www.apache.org/ # This file defines server settings which affect which types of services # are allowed, and in what circumstances. # Each directory to which Apache has access, can be configured with respect # to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that # directory (and its subdirectories). # Note: Where filenames are specified, you must use forward slashes # instead of backslashes. e.g. "c:/apache" instead of "c:\apache". If # the drive letter is ommited, the drive where Apache.exe is located # will be assumed # Originally by Rob McCool # First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of # permissions. # XXXX disabled because it is currently broken on Win32 # #Options FollowSymLinks #AllowOverride None # # Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow # particular features to be enabled - so if something's not working as # you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it # below. # This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to. # This may also be "None", "All", or any combination of "Indexes", # "Includes", "FollowSymLinks", "ExecCGI", or "MultiViews". # Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All" # doesn't give it to you. Options Indexes FollowSymLinks # This controls which options the .htaccess files in directories can # override. Can also be "All", or any combination of "Options", "FileInfo", # "AuthConfig", and "Limit" AllowOverride None # Controls who can get stuff from this server. order allow,deny allow from all # C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/cgi-bin should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased # CGI directory exists, if you have that configured. AllowOverride None Options None # Allow server status reports, with the URL of http://servername/server-status # Change the ".your_domain.com" to match your domain to enable. # #SetHandler server-status #order deny,allow #deny from all #allow from .your_domain.com # # Allow remote server configuration reports, with the URL of # http://servername/server-info (requires that mod_info.c be loaded). # Change the ".your_domain.com" to match your domain to enable. # #SetHandler server-info #order deny,allow #deny from all #allow from .your_domain.com # # There have been reports of people trying to abuse an old bug from pre-1.1 # days. This bug involved a CGI script distributed as a part of Apache. # By uncommenting these lines you can redirect these attacks to a logging # script on phf.apache.org. Or, you can record them yourself, using the script # support/phf_abuse_log.cgi. # #deny from all #ErrorDocument 403 http://phf.apache.org/phf_abuse_log.cgi # # You may place any other directories or locations you wish to have # access information for after this one. srm.cfg # With this document, you define the name space that users see of your http # server. This file also defines server settings which affect how requests are # serviced, and how results should be formatted. # See the tutorials at http://www.apache.org/ for # more information. # Originally by Rob McCool; Adapted for Apache # Note: Where filenames are specified, you must use forward slashes # instead of backslashes. e.g. "c:/apache" instead of "c:\apache". If # the drive letter is ommited, the drive where Apache.exe is located # will be assumed. # DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your # documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but # symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations. DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/htdocs" # UserDir: The name of the directory which is appended onto a user's home # directory if a ~user request is recieved. # # Under Win32, we do not currently try to determine the home directory of # a Windows login, so one of the forms such as the below needs to be # used. See the manual for details. # #UserDir "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/users/" # DirectoryIndex: Name of the file or files to use as a pre-written HTML # directory index. Separate multiple entries with spaces. DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm .cgi # FancyIndexing is whether you want fancy directory indexing or standard FancyIndexing on # AddIcon tells the server which icon to show for different files or filename # extensions AddIconByEncoding (CMP,/icons/compressed.gif) x-compress x-gzip AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/text.gif) text/* AddIconByType (IMG,/icons/image2.gif) image/* AddIconByType (SND,/icons/sound2.gif) audio/* AddIconByType (VID,/icons/movie.gif) video/* AddIcon /icons/binary.gif .bin .exe AddIcon /icons/binhex.gif .hqx AddIcon /icons/tar.gif .tar AddIcon /icons/world2.gif .wrl .wrl.gz .vrml .vrm .iv AddIcon /icons/compressed.gif .Z .z .tgz .gz .zip AddIcon /icons/a.gif .ps .ai .eps AddIcon /icons/layout.gif .html .shtml .htm .pdf AddIcon /icons/text.gif .txt AddIcon /icons/c.gif .c AddIcon /icons/p.gif .pl .py AddIcon /icons/f.gif .for AddIcon /icons/dvi.gif .dvi AddIcon /icons/uuencoded.gif .uu AddIcon /icons/script.gif .conf .sh .shar .csh .ksh .tcl AddIcon /icons/tex.gif .tex AddIcon /icons/bomb.gif core AddIcon /icons/back.gif .. AddIcon /icons/hand.right.gif README AddIcon /icons/folder.gif ^^DIRECTORY^^ AddIcon /icons/blank.gif ^^BLANKICON^^ # DefaultIcon is which icon to show for files which do not have an icon # explicitly set. DefaultIcon /icons/unknown.gif # AddDescription allows you to place a short description after a file in # server-generated indexes. # Format: AddDescription "description" filename # ReadmeName is the name of the README file the server will look for by # default. Format: ReadmeName name # # The server will first look for name.html, include it if found, and it will # then look for name and include it as plaintext if found. # # HeaderName is the name of a file which should be prepended to # directory indexes. ReadmeName README HeaderName HEADER # IndexIgnore is a set of filenames which directory indexing should ignore # Format: IndexIgnore name1 name2... IndexIgnore .??* *~ *# HEADER* README* RCS # AccessFileName: The name of the file to look for in each directory # for access control information. AccessFileName .htaccess # The following lines prevent .htaccess files from being viewed by # Web clients. Since .htaccess files often contain authorization # information, access is disallowed for security reasons. Comment # these lines out if you want Web visitors to see the contents of # .htaccess files. If you change the AccessFileName directive above, # be sure to make the corresponding changes here. order allow,deny deny from all # TypesConfig describes where the mime.types file (or equivalent) is # to be found. TypesConfig conf/mime.types # DefaultType is the default MIME type for documents which the server # cannot find the type of from filename extensions. DefaultType text/plain # AddEncoding allows you to have certain browsers (Mosaic/X 2.1+) uncompress # information on the fly. Note: Not all browsers support this. AddEncoding x-compress Z AddEncoding x-gzip gz # AddLanguage allows you to specify the language of a document. You can # then use content negotiation to give a browser a file in a language # it can understand. Note that the suffix does not have to be the same # as the language keyword --- those with documents in Polish (whose # net-standard language code is pl) may wish to use "AddLanguage pl .po" # to avoid the ambiguity with the common suffix for perl scripts. AddLanguage en .en AddLanguage fr .fr AddLanguage de .de AddLanguage da .da AddLanguage el .el AddLanguage it .it # LanguagePriority allows you to give precedence to some languages # in case of a tie during content negotiation. # Just list the languages in decreasing order of preference. LanguagePriority en fr de # Redirect allows you to tell clients about documents which used to exist in # your server's namespace, but do not anymore. This allows you to tell the # clients where to look for the relocated document. # Format: Redirect fakename url # Aliases: Add here as many aliases as you need (with no limit). The format is # Alias fakename realname # Note that if you include a trailing / on fakename then the server will # require it to be present in the URL. So "/icons" isn't aliased in this # example. Alias /icons/ "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/icons/" # ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts. # Format: ScriptAlias fakename realname # ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/cgi-bin/" ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:/home/omniteq/www/cgi-bin/" ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:/home/host/www/cgi-bin/" # If you want to use server side includes, or CGI outside # ScriptAliased directories, uncomment the following lines. # AddType allows you to tweak mime.types without actually editing it, or to # make certain files to be certain types. # Format: AddType type/subtype ext1 # For example, the PHP3 module (not part of the Apache distribution) # will typically use: #AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .phtml #AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps # AddHandler allows you to map certain file extensions to "handlers", # actions unrelated to filetype. These can be either built into the server # or added with the Action command (see below) # Format: AddHandler action-name ext1 # To use CGI scripts: AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl # To use server-parsed HTML files AddType text/html .shtml AddHandler server-parsed .shtml # Uncomment the following line to enable Apache's send-asis HTTP file # feature AddHandler send-as-is asis # If you wish to use server-parsed imagemap files, use AddHandler imap-file map # To enable type maps, you might want to use AddHandler type-map var # Action lets you define media types that will execute a script whenever # a matching file is called. This eliminates the need for repeated URL #pathnames for oft-used CGI file processors. #Format: Action media/type /cgi-script/location #Format: Action handler-name /cgi-script/location # MetaDir: specifies the name of the directory in which Apache can find # meta information files. These files contain additional HTTP headers # to include when sending the document #MetaDir .web # MetaSuffix: specifies the file name suffix for the file containing the # meta information. #MetaSuffix .meta # Customizable error response (Apache style) # these come in three flavors # # 1) plain text #ErrorDocument 500 "The server made a boo boo. # n.b. the (") marks it as text, it does not get output # # 2) local redirects #ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html # to redirect to local url /missing.html #ErrorDocument 404 /cgi-bin/missing_handler.pl # n.b. can redirect to a script or a document using server-side-includes. # # 3) external redirects #ErrorDocument 402 http://some.other_server.com/subscription_info.html # # mod_mime_magic allows the server to use various hints from the file itself # to determine its type. #MimeMagicFile conf/magic # The following directives disable keepalives and HTTP header flushes. # The first directive disables it for Netscape 2.x and browsers which # spoof it. There are known problems with these. # The second directive is for Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0b2 # which has a broken HTTP/1.1 implementation and does not properly # support keepalive when it is used on 301 or 302 (redirect) responses. BrowserMatch "Mozilla/2" nokeepalive BrowserMatch "MSIE 4\.0b2;" nokeepalive downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0 # The following directive disables HTTP/1.1 responses to browsers which # are in violation of the HTTP/1.0 spec by not being able to grok a # basic 1.1 response. BrowserMatch "RealPlayer 4\.0" force-response-1.0 BrowserMatch "Java/1\.0" force-response-1.0 BrowserMatch "JDK/1\.0" force-response-1.0 this is the error Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, jc5609@webwizard1.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. couldn't spawn child process: c:/home/host/www/cgi-bin/search.cgi i dont know why it says c:/home/ect. but this is what i get any help I would be gratefull. jerold >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Audit-Trail: State-Changed-From-To: open-closed State-Changed-By: marc State-Changed-When: Wed Dec 30 11:49:16 PST 1998 State-Changed-Why: This is a basic configuration question and, as we quite clearly direct before you submit a bug report, if you aren't sure it is a bug in Apache you should ask on Usenet, which is the proper place for technical support. First, it makes no sense to have multiple ScriptAlias directives for the same vhost (in this case, the main server) pointing to different places. Second, the problem is probably your CGI. 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