CGI / Perl File Permissions

It is EXTREMELY Important that you set the file permissions of your Perl / CGI scripts correctly. Since we are using suEXEC you will be forced to ensure that your scripts are secure. If your file permissions are not set correctly you will get an "Internal Server Error".

Please NOTE:
The Owner and Group of your CGI / Perl scripts has to be the "Default User" and the "Default Group". This User has been provided to you at the time your hosting package for icannbudgetDOTorg was created. All additional users, that are created by you cannot Own the CGI / Perl scripts.

It is safest, to set the file permissions to 700 for your CGI / Perl scripts. i.e. Only the owner of the file can read, write and execute this file. No other User has any access to this file.

The maximum permission that you can give for these scripts is 755. i.e. the owner of the file can read, write and execute the file. All other users can read and execute the file, but they cannot write to the file.

You need to ensure the following for your CGI / Perl scripts to work correctly:

1) The Owner of the scripts is the "Default User". If the Owner is the default user then the group of the file will automatically be the "Default group"

2) The file has correct permissions i.e. 700 / 711 / 744 or 755. Any other permission will result in a "Internal Server Error".

3) The directory in which this file exists does not have a setuid/setgid bit.

4) The directory in which the file exists should not be writable by any other User. i.e. other users of the same group or any other users should not be able to write to this directory. You should idealy set the permission of this directory to 755.

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