Installing DMCGI

ID:135296
 
Oct 22 2004, 11:57 am
Grei and I are currently working on setting up DMCGI for his server so that planetBYOND may come back. We're running into some troubles, however.

http://www.knifehits.com/temp/HelloDMCGI.dmb CGI authentication set to 1
http://www.knifehits.com/temp/HelloDMCGI2.dmb CGI authentication set to 0

I'm getting an Internal Server Error. The log returns "[Fri Oct 22 14:44:55 2004] [error] [client 66.176.125.246] Premature end of script headers: HelloDMCGI.dmb"

Following Mike's advice in [link] the program he suggested returns:

SERVER_SIGNATURE=Apache/2.0.48 (Fedora) Server at www.knifehits.com Port 80
 
 UNIQUE_ID=OTxKj38AAAEAABYyeQkAAAAF
 HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE=300
 HTTP_USER_AGENT=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)
 SERVER_PORT=80
 HTTP_HOST=www.knifehits.com
 DOCUMENT_ROOT=/var/www/knifehits
 HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET=ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
 SCRIPT_FILENAME=/var/www/knifehits/temp/env.cgi
 REQUEST_URI=/temp/env.cgi
 SCRIPT_NAME=/temp/env.cgi
 HTTP_CONNECTION=keep-alive
 REMOTE_PORT=3555
 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 PWD=/var/www/knifehits/temp
 SERVER_ADMIN=webmaster@knifehits.com
 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE=en-us,en;q=0.5
 HTTP_ACCEPT=application/x-shockwave-flash,text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,*/*;q=0.1
 REMOTE_ADDR=66.176.125.246
 SHLVL=1
 SERVER_NAME=www.knifehits.com
 SERVER_SOFTWARE=Apache/2.0.48 (Fedora)
 QUERY_STRING=
 SERVER_ADDR=207.36.229.2
 GATEWAY_INTERFACE=CGI/1.1
 SERVER_PROTOCOL=HTTP/1.1
 HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING=gzip,deflate
 REQUEST_METHOD=GET
 _=/bin/env


The DMB extension has been added to AdHandler. BYOND world's run fine with the same path and BYOND is installed globally. Any ideas for how to fix this?
Oct 22 2004, 12:08 pm
Have you changed one of the apache file's to phrase .dmb extensions?
Oct 22 2004, 12:14 pm
First, make sure your dmb file is executable (chmod 755 HelloDMCGI.dmb).

Second, it's quite possible that the server isn't recognizing .dmb as a valid CGI script extension. There are two ways around this; either method will work. First is to rename the file to have a .cgi extension (in CGI mode, there's no requirement to have a .dmb extension). The other method is to configure the server to accept .dmb as a valid script extension. To do this, you need a line like
AddHandler cgi-script .dmb

either in a file called .htaccess in the directory containing your dmb files, or in the httpd.conf.
Oct 22 2004, 12:28 pm
In response to Mike H
As I mentioned, I have that line in AddHandler. Upon reuploading, HelloDMCGI2.dmb (no authentication) works fine, while the other still doesn't. I imagine it has to do with byondcert.
Oct 22 2004, 12:55 pm
In response to HavenMaster
I suspect the problem is that whatever userid actually runs the script doesn't have permission to create a .byond/ directory under its home. You might try the sample code in id:282125 and see if it helps shed any light.

Edit: Though I notice in your env output, there is no HOME variable. That complicates things a bit. BYOND does grab the correct home directory in this case, but it's not available within DM. This makes it a little tougher to diagnose.
Oct 24 2004, 2:10 am
In response to Mike H
On shell, type

"mkdir /.byond"

This should create a .byond directory. Then type mkdir "/.byond/cfg". Then type "chmod 777 /.byond" and "chmod 777 /.byond/cfg". That worked for me. I think. I forgot. Servers down. In fact the box was disassembled. Crap.

[Edit]
Ohh. His userid doesn't have access to do that. Misread.

Login to root first. Then go do that. When you did that, it should work, because your userid will have access to read/write to the directory (as everybody on the system can with chmod 777..).
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