Re: [squid-users] SquidGuard cgi problem

On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 20:50 +0000, Arthur Dent wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have been using squid / squidGuard for so long now that I have
> completely forgotten how I set it up!
>
> Now, following a recent upgrade to SQUID 3.0.STABLE20 I find that the
> squidGuard redirect page fails with the error:
> "You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/squidGuard.cgi on this
> server"
>
> My first action was to check the permissions of that file:
> # ls -la /var/www/cgi-bin/squidGuard.cgi
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 11169 2009-08-17 19:34 /var/www/cgi-bin/squidGuard.cgi
>
> Which is, I think, how it was when it was still working. Just in case it
> had anything to do with users I "chown'ed" it to squid.
>
> # ls -la /var/www/cgi-bin/squidGuard.cgi
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 squid squid 11169 2009-08-17 19:34 /var/www/cgi-bin/squidGuard.cgi
>
> Still no joy.
>
> I can access the squidGuard.cgi file directly from a browser on a
> machine on the network so actually I'm sure it's not a permission
> problem. It's only when called from squid / squidGuard that I get the
> error.
>
> In my squid.conf I do have "cache_effective_user squid" set.
>
> I know I'm missing something silly - what have I forgotten to do or
> check?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions...
>
> Mark

Can nobody help me on this one?

I am still at a loss as to how to progress this. The .cgi file works
when accessed directly from the browser - just not when called from
squid/squidGuard...

Thanks again for your consideration...

Mark