wanboot-cgi error Status: 403 Forbidden (GET method expected)
I am trying to setup wanboot and when I try a client install I get the following error:
boot> go
<time unavailable> wanboot alert: wanbootfs: Request returned code 500
<time unavailable> wanboot alert: Internal Server Error (system_conf file not found)
So I tried to run the script, /var/apache/cgi-bin/wanboot-cgi from the command line I get the following error.
Status: 403 Forbidden (GET method expected)
When I visit the site http://localhost/cgi-bin/wanboot-cgi I get the following error:
Bad Request (missing or illegal CONTENT)
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Premature end of script headers: /var/apache/cgi-bin/wanboot-cgi
Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.36 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80
I chmod 755 on the wanboot-cgi per the docs. Any suggestions?
# 2
To debug CGI scripts that are expecting a 'GET', you have to set
environment variables which contain the variables & values
anticipated by the CGI.
# export REQUEST_METHOD=GET
# export QUERY_STRING='CONTENT=bootfs&IP=10.23.0.0&CID=01080020F94640&NONCE= 5'
# export DOCUMENT_ROOT=/var/apache2/htdocs
# ./wanboot-cgi | strings | more
Content-Length: 377063
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=WANBoot_Part_Boundary
--WANBoot_Part_Boundary
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Length: 376832
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Solaris CDROM
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I'm stil not sure why wanboot-cgi is failing, though.
apache's errorlog complains about
[Fri Jan 12 13:28:04 2007] [error] [client 10.23.0.11] Premature end of
script headers: wanboot-cgi
Which I'm told is because there's no
200 Ok HTTP/1.0
line in the CGI output above, but I find it hard to believe
that wanboot-cgi can be that badly written. wanboot-cgi
is the same size in all four releases of Solaris 10 available to me.
I'm doing something else wrong, but I don't know what....
# 5
I was able to get this working, sorry it took so long to respond. The key was the following:
I run Solaris 10 and I upgraded to Apache 2 and it runs as nobody:nobody
1. /etc/netboot needs to be owned by your web server (nobody:nobody in my instance). If the permission on this directory are messed up, it is unable to read your wanboot.conf or your system.conf files.
2. my wanboot-cgi is set at 755 and owned by nobody:nobody
