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<p>As I mentioned in my original post, the admin is not supposed to
create this file. The CGI/server must create this file. I can only
create the directory in which it exists, and the selfservice CGI
script must do the rest. <br>
<br>
A similar example:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21649680/chmod-to-srwxrwxrwx.html">https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21649680/chmod-to-srwxrwxrwx.html</a><br>
<br>
Thus, this is a bug, and the Freeside developers must fix the
problem.<br>
</p>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2017-10-30 11:05 AM, Erreu Gedmon
wrote:<br>
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<p>Hi Ernie,</p>
<p>I also experienced this issue during my install but I don't
remember the exact fix. I dug through my installation notes and
found I'd used these steps:</p>
<pre>touch /usr/local/freeside/selfservice_socket
chown freeside /usr/local/freeside/selfservice_socket
chmod 600 /usr/local/freeside/selfservice_socket
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Here's the directory on our production system:<br>
<pre># ls -halF /usr/local/freeside/</pre>
<pre>total 13452</pre>
<pre>drwxr-xr-x 2 freeside wheel 512B Sep 17 21:45 ./
drwxr-xr-x 17 root wheel 512B Jul 26 2016 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 freeside wheel 13M Oct 30 10:40 selfservice.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 freeside wheel 0B Oct 30 10:40 selfservice.writelock
srwxr-xr-x 1 freeside wheel 0B Sep 17 21:45 selfservice_socket=
-rw-r--r-- 1 freeside wheel 4B Sep 17 21:45 selfservice_socket.pid</pre>
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My memory of this issue is vague, but I do recall that you have to
make sure that your ssh is operational. In my case I
double-checked that the back end server had passwordless ssh
access for username freeside to the selfservice server by IP
address, hostname, and FQDN:<br>
<pre># su - freeside
# ssh freeside-dev.lightspeed.ca
# ssh freeside-dev
# ssh 206.12.82.118</pre>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="0">Erreu Gedmon
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/30/2017 10:24 AM, Ernie Dunbar
wrote:<br>
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<p>Yes, that was the thing that was jumping out at me too. But
since the Apache server runs as the user "freeside", that's
who owns that directory and has write access to that file and
directory. Even chmod 777 on /usr/local/freeside does not
allow the CGI script to create the socket, and creating the
empty file /usr/local/freeside/selfservice_socket and granting
777 permissions on that produces the same "Connection refused"
error.</p>
<p>So... I haven't gotten anywhere on this yet.<br>
</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2017-10-28 09:28 AM, Roderick
Anderson wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:fffbd1d1-113e-df42-2a80-082f8c6dae44@gmail.com">Warning:
It has been 5+ years since I have done this stuff for a
living. <br>
<br>
The thing that jumps out at me is permissions. Make sure the
directory where the socket is being created is writable by the
freeside user not just the user apache is running as. <br>
<br>
<br>
Rod <br>
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On 10/27/2017 03:27 PM, Ernie Dunbar wrote: <br>
<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">Hi everyone.
<br>
<br>
I'm trying to set up the Freeside Selfservice web pages in
Freeside 4.2. After trying to complete the installation
process described in <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.freeside.biz/mediawiki/index.php/Freeside:3:Documentation:Self-Service_Installation"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.freeside.biz/mediawiki/index.php/Freeside:3:Documentation:Self-Service_Installation</a>,
I get the following error in my Apache error logs: <br>
<br>
[Fri Oct 27 11:32:42.273282 2017] [cgi:error] [pid 843]
[client 172.103.224.36:54540] AH01215: connect to
/usr/local/freeside/selfservice_socket: Connection refused
at /usr/local/share/perl/5.20.2/FS/SelfService.pm line
199., referer: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://freeside-dev.lightspeed.ca/FS-SelfService/cgi/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://freeside-dev.lightspeed.ca/FS-SelfService/cgi/</a>
<br>
<br>
When I attempt to connect to this socket using the Linux
`socat` command, I get much the same error: <br>
<br>
socat -
UNIX-CONNECT:/usr/local/freeside/selfservice_socket <br>
2017/10/27 15:23:59 socat[1784] E connect(5, AF=1
"/usr/local/freeside/selfservice_socket", 40): Connection
refused <br>
<br>
I've read that you can't go and create a Unix socket by
touching a file. Evidently, the CGI script is supposed to
do the creating. But nuking that file and leaving the
directory it sits in writable for the Apache server just
breaks it thusly: <br>
<br>
[Fri Oct 27 15:26:54.642004 2017] [cgi:error] [pid 845]
[client 172.103.224.36:60186] AH01215: connect to
/usr/local/freeside/selfservice_socket: No such file or
directory at
/usr/local/share/perl/5.20.2/FS/SelfService.pm line 199.,
referer: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://freeside-dev.lightspeed.ca/FS-SelfService/cgi/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://freeside-dev.lightspeed.ca/FS-SelfService/cgi/</a>
<br>
<br>
So... what's wrong here? <br>
<br>
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