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=== Wednesday 24th May 2006 ===

==== Wiki Breakage ====

Noticed this morning that the wiki wasn't working (''Internal Server Error'' for every page).
The web server error log just had this:
{{{
[Wed May 24 09:05:05 2006] [notice] mod_fcgid: server /var/www/tips/cgi-bin/moin.fcgi(12213) started
[Wed May 24 09:05:05 2006] [error] [client 212.56.100.58] Premature end of script headers: moin.fcgi
[Wed May 24 09:05:11 2006] [notice] mod_fcgid: process /var/www/tips/cgi-bin/moin.fcgi(12213) exit(communication error), terminated by calling exit(), return code: 255}}}
Spent half an hour or so trying to figure out what had broken `mod_fcgid` before settling for a temporary workaround of reinstating `mod_fastcgi` and running the wiki as an external FastCGI application (which worked).
About ten minutes later it dawned on me what had gone wrong.
Yesterday afternoon I remounted `/tmp` and `/var` with the `noexec` and `nodev` mount options.
So I no longer was able to run CGI applications from `/var/www`. D'oh!
I've now moved the web server directory from the default `/var/www` to `/srv/www` where it belongs, and have reinstated `mod_fcgid`.

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