Hello, I'm trying to connect to a PostgreSql database at the localhost
using Apache 2.0 server. I'm working with Fedora Core 4. The cgi script
is written in Python 2.4, I am using the PyGreSql library. The script
works fine when started from command line, but when I start it via
localhost I get the message: could not create socket: Permission denied
Details: 1. I created the user 'www' and granted him select privilege
on the table to access 2. I edited the httpd.conf, added "User www" 3.
The script looks like this ********* #!/usr/bin/python2.4 import cgi
import cgitb; cgitb.enable() import pgdb print "Content-Type:
text/html" # HTML is following print # blank line, end of headers print
"<TITLE>CGI script output</TITLE>" print "<H1>This is my first CGI
script</H1>" print "Hello, world!" con = pgdb.connect(host =
'localhost', database= 'words',user = 'www', password = '') cursor =
con.cursor() select = "select * from main;" cursor.execute(select) data
= cursor.fetchall() for i in data: print i ************ 4. When I start
it from the apache server, I get the following: ********************
InternalError Python 2.4.1: /usr/bin/python2.4 Sun Sep 4 23:41:18 2005
A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function
calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.
/var/www/cgi-bin/test.py 9 print "<H1>This is my first CGI script</H1>"
10 print "Hello, world!" 11 con = pgdb.connect(host = 'localhost',
database= 'words',user = 'www', password = '') 12 cursor = con.cursor()
13 select = "select * from main;" con undefined, pgdb = <module 'pgdb'
from '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pgdb.pyc'>, pgdb.connect =
<function connect>, host undefined, database undefined, user undefined,
password undefined /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pgdb.py in
connect(dsn=None, user='www', password='', host='localhost',
database='words') 369 # open the connection 370 cnx = _connect_(dbbase,
dbhost, dbport, dbopt, 371 dbtty, dbuser, dbpasswd) 372 return
pgdbCnx(cnx) 373 dbtty = '', dbuser = 'www', dbpasswd = ''
InternalError: could not create socket: Permission denied args =
('could not create socket: Permission denied\n',) ************ 5. The
previous experiments with granting privileges to public and to user
apache led to the same result. What is wrong? Thanks in advance. Mihail
Mihailov
