writing captcha image file

[amaltasb@gmail.com]

I have a script which generates captcha file on
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/captcha directory. The script is working fine
when i execute it from terminal>[color=blue]
>/usr/local/bin/python generateCaptcha .cgi > and it writes to /htdocs/captcha directory[/color]

but when I execute the script through
http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/generateCaptcha.cgi its failing at
im.save(file_na me, 'JPEG')

I changed the permissions to 755.

Can anyone help me...

Thanks

[amaltasb@gmail.com]

Re: writing captcha image file

I get this msg:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/newuser.cgi", line 61, in ?
cstatus = im.save(file_na me,'JPEG')
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/PIL/Image.py", line 1299, in save
fp = __builtin__.ope n(fp, "wb")
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/usr/local/apache/htdocs/captcha/t13uum15a2jgfj2 sqg.jpg'

[Fredrik Lundh]

Re: writing captcha image file

amaltasb@gmail. com wrote:
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> I get this msg:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/newuser.cgi", line 61, in ?
> cstatus = im.save(file_na me,'JPEG')
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/PIL/Image.py", line 1299, in save
> fp = __builtin__.ope n(fp, "wb")
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/usr/local/apache/htdocs/captcha/t13uum15a2jgfj2 sqg.jpg'[/color]

that means exactly what it says: the user account that your CGI script
is running under is not allowed to write to that directory.

this is a Unix/Apache configuration issue, not really a Python issue. see
this apache FAQ entry for some additional info:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/faq/error.html#error.permissiondenied

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[amaltasb@gmail.com]

Re: writing captcha image file

I changed the owner of the file to root using chown root newuser.cgi,
but still i m not able to write...

[Fredrik Lundh]

Re: writing captcha image file

amaltasb@gmail. com wrote:
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> I changed the owner of the file to root using chown root newuser.cgi,
> but still i m not able to write...[/color]

have you tried asking in a unix or apache forum, or do you expect
pythoneers to help you with all your computer-related problems ?

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[John Draper]

Re: writing captcha image file

amaltasb@gmail. com wrote:
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>I changed the owner of the file to root using chown root newuser.cgi,
>but still i m not able to write...
>
>
>[/color]
Are you running Apache in Chrooted mode? If so, then that might be your
problem.

John