David Kankiewicz wrote:

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solution is to make var/ and contents be owned by the user that's ZServer is trying to run as.

I thought it would be root, as that's who I compiled it as.

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It's in the docs already, "nobody" must have write permissions in the var directory.

from FAQ.txt: The var subdirectory of your installation and everything therein MUST be writable by the user which runs cgi scripts on your _web_server_ (usually nobody _if_ you are using PCGI.) (emphasis mine) I compiled with wo_pcgi.py, and so I assumed this did not apply to me and that the user would be root.

hope that helps,

I chowned to nobody:nobody and it works. Thanks for the tip! I do think the documentation isn't very clear on the wo_cgi case, though. ~mindlace