Kimi,

I recreated the problem as best I could on my own server and found the 
exact same problem.  Turns out that apache checks user and group 
ownership for the script and the parent cgi-bin directory.  They both 
MUST be owned by the same user and group.  Just do a chown -R user.group 
/home/user to correct it.

For more info:

http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/faqs/RH-apache-FAQ/c14.html


 > Can't figure this one out.  I have a user that was just created.  We
 >  want to run a test script under that user's home directory,
 > specifically trying to achieve in the end database access.  I get a
 > Premature end of script headers and reference to the path.  I can
 > move those scripts around and get other error messages, but at least
 > it's 'touching' the script.  In the httpd.conf, Options is set to
 > ExecCGI, allow from all. The UserDir section is set to read only
 > though.  I do not know if this matters, but I have tried to update
 > this in different lines with no change.  Secondly, even though there
 > is a <Limit xxxxx> line, it doesn't include the ExecCGI specifically
 > to not run.  Adding the ExecCGI anywhere under this UserDir portion
 > does nothing.  There doesn't seem to be any reason for this to not
 > work.
 >
 > Under the spot that controls who gets to access stuff on the server,
 > the line for Directory is set correctly, I believe.  It's <Directory
 >  /home/*/*/cgi-bin/> and <Directory /home/*/*/*/>.  Google search
 > comes up with some tips but all of those are set as it should be.


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Chris Lewis
shadow@digitalnirvana.com
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