[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 1.4 RC1 - config.cgi

[Bill Erickson]

On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:51:17 -0400, Dan Scott <denials at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/10/21 Warren Layton <warren.layton at gmail.com>:
>> I'm trying to run cgi-bin/config.cgi from my browser but I keep
>> getting "500 Internal Server Error". When this error occurs, the
>> following message is appended to my Apache 2 error log:
>>
>>      [Tue Oct 21 21:45:31 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature
>> end of script headers: config.cgi
>>
>> This is likely my fault and I'm assuming that I have misconfigured my
>> <Directory> section in /etc/apache2/sites-available/eg.conf. For
>> testing, I tried to "Allow from all":
>>
>>  Alias /cgi-bin/ "/openils/var/cgi-bin/"
>>  <Directory "/openils/var/cgi-bin">
>>         AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
>>         AllowOverride None
>>         Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Indexes
>>         Order allow,deny
>>         Allow from all
>>  </Directory>
>>
>>
>> ...but I still get the same error.
>>
>> Likely a silly misconfiguration of my own making, but just in case...
>
> No, not at all. It turns out that this is a regression introduced in
> OpenSRF; if either the osrf_json_gateway or osrf_http_translator
> Apache modules are enabled, then CGI support in Apache is broken.
>
> Of course, both modules are required for Evergreen 1.4 to function. So
> - anyone want to start bisecting the changes in OpenSRF, testing just
> osrf_json_gateway and a minimalist CGI configuration to determine what
> commit introduced the regression? I can vouch that this was working as
> of May 2008, as I have a working system that dates back to that time.
>
> And if there are any testing fans out there with some time on their
> hands to contribute to the project, this would be a great opportunity
> to help set up a framework to help catch these problems early in the
> development cycle...
>


Fix committed:  http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/OpenSRF/changeset/1473

It was caused by some new child process cleanup code.  I have to look into  
why it's happening, but for now, it won't cause the problem anymore.

-b


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