# Exec format error when using gitweb 6 messages from 2008-06-22 to 2008-06-22. Participants: Erez Zilber, Lea Wiemann, Luciano Rocha. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/14085 ## Erez Zilber, 2008-06-22 13:51 Subject: Exec format error when using gitweb Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/ce513bcc0806220651g5cf59516w3fc30a68d7f09e79%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hi, I'm trying to config gitweb using v1.5.5.3. I'm able to see my repositories (through gitweb) but I see the following errors in /var/log/httpd/error_log. Can anyone help? [Sun Jun 22 16:33:53 2008] [error] [client 172.16.0.7] (8)Exec format error: exec of '/var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.css' failed, referer: http://kites/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi [Sun Jun 22 16:33:53 2008] [error] [client 172.16.0.7] Premature end of script headers: gitweb.css, referer: http://kites/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi [Sun Jun 22 16:33:53 2008] [error] [client 172.16.0.7] (8)Exec format error: exec of '/var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb/git-logo.png' failed, referer: http://kites/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi [Sun Jun 22 16:33:53 2008] [error] [client 172.16.0.7] Premature end of script headers: git-logo.png, referer: http://kites/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi Thanks, Erez ``` ## Lea Wiemann, 2008-06-22 14:04 Subject: Re: Exec format error when using gitweb Message-ID: <485E5BD6.6060105@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/485E5BD6.6060105%40gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` Erez Zilber wrote: > [Sun Jun 22 16:33:53 2008] [error] [client 172.16.0.7] (8)Exec format > error: exec of '/var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.css' failed, referer: Random guess: Did you make the data files (.css, .png) executable by accident, so your server is trying to execute them? -- Lea ``` ## Erez Zilber, 2008-06-22 14:11 Subject: Re: Exec format error when using gitweb Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/ce513bcc0806220711k5e8c5085qfa330b017d736142%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <485E5BD6.6060105@gmail.com> ``` On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Lea Wiemann wrote: > Erez Zilber wrote: >> >> [Sun Jun 22 16:33:53 2008] [error] [client 172.16.0.7] (8)Exec format >> error: exec of '/var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.css' failed, referer: > > Random guess: Did you make the data files (.css, .png) executable by > accident, so your server is trying to execute them? > Thanks for the quick response. Yeah, I did that after I got "Permission denied" errors. Now, I chnaged it and it looks like this: [admin@kites ~]$ sudo ls -l /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb total 192 -rwxr-xr-x 1 apache root 164 Jun 19 13:57 git-favicon.png -rw-r--r-- 1 apache root 208 Jun 19 13:57 git-logo.png -rwxr-xr-x 1 apache root 170562 Jun 19 13:57 gitweb.cgi -rwxr-xr-x 1 apache root 79 Jun 22 16:29 gitweb_config.perl -rw-r--r-- 1 apache root 7112 Jun 19 13:57 gitweb.css and I get the following errors: [Sun Jun 22 17:06:08 2008] [error] [client 172.16.0.7] (13)Permission denied: exec of '/var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.css' failed, referer: http://kites/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi [Sun Jun 22 17:06:08 2008] [error] [client 172.16.0.7] Premature end of script headers: gitweb.css, referer: http://kites/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi [Sun Jun 22 17:06:08 2008] [error] [client 172.16.0.7] (13)Permission denied: exec of '/var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb/git-logo.png' failed, referer: http://kites/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi [Sun Jun 22 17:06:08 2008] [error] [client 172.16.0.7] Premature end of script headers: git-logo.png, referer: http://kites/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi Erez ``` ## Lea Wiemann, 2008-06-22 14:17 Subject: Re: Exec format error when using gitweb Message-ID: <485E5EDF.1030002@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/485E5EDF.1030002%40gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` Erez Zilber wrote: > -rw-r--r-- 1 apache root 7112 Jun 19 13:57 gitweb.css > > [Sun Jun 22 17:06:08 2008] [error] [client 172.16.0.7] (13)Permission > denied: exec of '/var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.css' failed, referer: Apparently your web server is trying to execute gitweb.css even though its executable bit isn't set -- perhaps because it's located in the cgi-bin directory. I suggest you open http://.../cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.css and try to get it to display the CSS file in your browser; this is a problem with your web server, not with gitweb. (By the way, git-favicon.png and gitweb_config.perl shouldn't have their executable bits set either, since they're not CGI scripts.) -- Lea ``` ## Luciano Rocha, 2008-06-22 14:42 Subject: Re: Exec format error when using gitweb Message-ID: <20080622144240.GA18324@bit.office.eurotux.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080622144240.GA18324%40bit.office.eurotux.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 04:51:52PM +0300, Erez Zilber wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to config gitweb using v1.5.5.3. I'm able to see my > repositories (through gitweb) but I see the following errors in > /var/log/httpd/error_log. Can anyone help? > > [Sun Jun 22 16:33:53 2008] [error] [client 172.16.0.7] (8)Exec format > error: exec of '/var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.css' failed, referer: > http://kites/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi If cgi-bin is configured as ScriptAlias in Apache httpd server, then it will try to execute every file inside that directory. You should move them elsewere, or use a different directory altogether, with ExecCGI permissions. -- Luciano Rocha Eurotux Informática, S.A. ``` ## Erez Zilber, 2008-06-22 14:47 Subject: Re: Exec format error when using gitweb Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/ce513bcc0806220747x38cf83c2g7cd355f34c090de2%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <485E5EDF.1030002@gmail.com> ``` On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Lea Wiemann wrote: > Erez Zilber wrote: >> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 apache root 7112 Jun 19 13:57 gitweb.css >> >> [Sun Jun 22 17:06:08 2008] [error] [client 172.16.0.7] (13)Permission >> denied: exec of '/var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.css' failed, referer: > > Apparently your web server is trying to execute gitweb.css even though its > executable bit isn't set -- perhaps because it's located in the cgi-bin > directory. I suggest you open http://.../cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.css and try > to get it to display the CSS file in your browser; this is a problem with > your web server, not with gitweb. I moved gitweb outside of cgi-bin and now it works OK. Thanks! > > (By the way, git-favicon.png and gitweb_config.perl shouldn't have their > executable bits set either, since they're not CGI scripts.) > Sure. Thanks, Erez > -- Lea > ```