Hi all,

I solved the problem:
it is not a problem of mod_perl, or perl, or linux... it is a problem
of Fedora and SELinux, which prevents a cgi to open a socket on the
same system...


Valerio

2008/4/17, Valerio <valerio.bontempi@(protected)>:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a mod_perl script which works at PerlTransHandler level, and
> translates the virtual host requested to the real system path where
> site's pages are stored.
> To do this translation, I tried two solutions:
> - ask to a db
> - ask to a php script on another apache which makes the traslation.
>
> But the second solution doesn't work in every situation:
> if the second apache is on the same system but different port, it
> doesn't work and I find on the error_log
>
> 500 Can't connect to 192.168.2.110:8080 (connect: Permission denied)
>
> (also if I use a different Ip, using an alias for the network interface)
>
> Otherwise, if it is on another system, it works.
>
> Does anyone know why it happens?
> Is it a limitation of apache/mod_perl?
>
> Thanks and regards
>
>
> Valerio
>