topic Re: CSWS 2.0 & OSU scripting in Operating System - OpenVMS

CSWS 2.0 & OSU scripting

Kris Clippeleyr — Wed, 26 May 2004 07:44:55 GMT

Hi All,

Currently playing with the CSWS 2.0 on VMS 7.3-2 (TCP/IP 5.4, DECnet OSI).
Since (almost) all of the CGI-scripts here are written for the OSU server, I tried to enable the OSUscript handler (mod_osuscript) as described in the "Secure Web Server for OpenVMS Installation and Configuration Guide", paragraph 3.5.12.
Unfortunately, so far no luck.
Each time I do a request for "http://host/htbin/whatever.com", one of the servers dies with an ACCVIO.
The CSWS configuration is out of the box, with the exception of a LoadModule directive for mod_osuscript, and I also uncommented the "" directive.
As described in the installation guide, the necessary OSU scripts (WWWEXEC.COM, etc.) and executables (CGI_SYMBOLS.EXE) are present at their designated location.
Furthermore the APACHE$WWW account is owner of all directories and files in its "DocumentRoot" including the OSUscript directory & command procs.

In the APACHE$ROOT:[LOGS]error_log.;1 file, I get the following entry:
[Wed May 26 14:34:20 2004] [notice] child pid 23458 exit signal Bad system call (12)
In the log file of the deceased server (excerpt):
$ httpd -f apache$common:[conf]httpd.conf -p 24993 -w 0
$ httpd_status = $STATUS
...
$ Exit %X1000000C

Someone any ideas?
All hints greatly appreciated.

Kris.

Re: CSWS 2.0 & OSU scripting

Willem Grooters — Thu, 27 May 2004 01:40:16 GMT

Kris,

Don't you agree this again is prove of bad porting (IMHO) since it doesn't tell you ANYTHING...

APACHE$WWW should have at least READ access to all files, and READ/EXECUTE on all directories and executables that eventually can be accessed.
Another possibility: is mod_osuscript the one for SWS 2.0, or the one you use for 1.3 as well? I don't know if the latter is compatible with SWS 2.0. I'm just guessing, but mod_perl has been rebuilt as well (ECO3 is for SWS 2.0 only) so it wouldn't surprise me if this were required for mod_osuscript as well. In that case, you should use the SWS 2.0-version of this module as well (if it exists)

Willem

Re: CSWS 2.0 & OSU scripting

Kris Clippeleyr — Thu, 27 May 2004 02:43:51 GMT

Willem,

I agree with you in that SWS 2.0 is not a mature port yet.
As for your other comments:
VMS 7.3-2 freshly installed (not upgraded), SWS 2.0 installed (so no inheritance of a previous version), and NO perl installed (according to the installation guide, I don't need it).
APACHE$WWW is owner of all files & directories, so has Read & Execute rights.

Greetz,

Kris

Re: CSWS 2.0 & OSU scripting

Carl Karcher — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:52:02 GMT

I have the exact same symptom as Kris (ACCVIO). Fresh CSWS 2.0 install (not upgrade) on 7.3-2,
TCPIP V5.4-ECO2. No update on this yet?

Re: CSWS 2.0 & OSU scripting

Kris Clippeleyr — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 03:06:44 GMT

Carl,

We received a very unofficial patch for MOD_OSUSCRIPT.EXE in APACHE$COMMON:[MODULES].
If HP technical support here in Brussels can give us that, you might get hold of it thru your channels.
Btw, the Stream_LF issues has not been taken care of.

Greetz,

Kris

Re: CSWS 2.0 & OSU scripting

Martin P.J. Zinser — Sat, 24 Jul 2004 20:44:16 GMT

Hi Kris,

the last Apache update is more than 6 months old. I do suppose they are busy porting to
Itanium and getting The stream-LF problem
finally fixed. Also no VMS changes have made it into the offical code base at least up to
2.0.50 AFAIK, so there is definitly some catching up to do. For the time being I will stick with OSU for my production servers and only use CSWS for test purposes.

Greetings, Martin

Re: CSWS 2.0 & OSU scripting

Kris Clippeleyr — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 02:18:27 GMT

Martin,

As you suggest, we kept most of our production servers on OSU, only the new ones have Apache (either V1.3 or V2.0). The unofficial patch now works as a charm, and for now we try to live with the Stream_LF issue.

Thanx for your input.

Kris