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by **Jpool** » Thu, 01 Jun 1995 04:00:00

Does anyone recognize the following error and what the error refers to:

Thanks

Rahul

HTTP/1.0 500 Server Error
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 15:52:56 GMT
Server: NCSA/1.4.1
Content-type: text/html

<HEAD><TITLE>500 Server Error</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY><H1>500 Server Error</H1>
The server has encountered a misconfiguration.
The error was unable to change gid.
</BODY>

by **Kevin Stev** » Thu, 01 Jun 1995 04:00:00

Quote:>The server has encountered a misconfiguration.
>The error was unable to change gid.

On HP-UX, the setuid(2) and setgid(2) argument can't be negative. You
need to change your Group and possibly User httpd.conf directives.

by **Stephen C. Ste** » Fri, 02 Jun 1995 04:00:00

>Does anyone recognize the following error and what the error refers to:

>Thanks

>Rahul

>HTTP/1.0 500 Server Error
>Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 15:52:56 GMT
>Server: NCSA/1.4.1
>Content-type: text/html

><HEAD><TITLE>500 Server Error</TITLE></HEAD>
><BODY><H1>500 Server Error</H1>
>The server has encountered a misconfiguration.
>The error was unable to change gid.
></BODY>

The default configuration file for httpd probably tells it to run with
the user/group IDs nobody/nogroup when accessing documents (I'm not
positive, since I use the CERN server). However, under HPUX, user
nobody and group nogroup can only be used for file ownership: they
are not valid as the owner or group of a process (ie. a program).
You'll have to choose (or create) some user and group without special
priveledges and set httpd to run with that identity when accessing files.

This issue comes up with many default server installations under HPUX.
On most versions of Unix, user nobody and group nogroup are a UID/GID
pair that always exists (NFS uses them).

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by **Brandon Lo** » Sun, 04 Jun 1995 04:00:00

>Does anyone recognize the following error and what the error refers to:

HPUX doesn't like the numeric group id. You need to add a group
nobody to your /etc/group file, or change the default configuration
file to a pre-existing group.

Brandon
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by **Stephen C. Ste** » Thu, 08 Jun 1995 04:00:00

Quote:
>>The server has encountered a misconfiguration.
>>The error was unable to change gid.

>On HP-UX, the setuid(2) and setgid(2) argument can't be negative. You
>need to change your Group and possibly User httpd.conf directives.

To ampilify this, under HPUX user nobody and group nogroup can own
files, but they can't be used as the UID/GID of a process (program).
You have to chose (or create) another non-proviledged user and group.

Stephen C. Steel Kamerlingh Onnes Lab.

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