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

[Warren Layton]

Thanks Bill and Dan! Does that mean that there's an upcoming minor release
of OpenSRF 1.0 coming in the near future?

Cheers,
  Warren

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Bill Erickson <erickson at esilibrary.com>wrote:

> 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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