[OpenSIPS-Users] OpenSIPS-CP: mi_fifo and "cannot open write fifo"

[Bogdan-Andrei Iancu]

Hi Joe,

What user is the apache server running as ? as simple test, you can "su" 
as that user and try to open for write the fifo file.

On a first look, everything seams to be ok....

Regards,
Bogdan

Joe Micciche wrote:
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> Running OpenSIPS 1.6.2 with OpenSIPS-CP 4.0 (downloaded Monday) on RHEL
> 5.5, Apache/2.2.3.
>
> In CP, I cannot apply any changes to server, each time it errors out
> with "sorry - cannot open write fifo".
>
> I am running opensips as root. modules/mi_fifo.so is loading properly
> when opensips is started.
>
> ls -l /tmp:
> prw-rw-rw- 1 root root    0 Jun  4 07:58 opensips_fifo
>
> boxes.global.inc.php has:
>
> $box_id=0;
> // mi host:port pair || fifo_file
> //$boxes[$box_id]['mi']['conn']="127.0.0.1:8080";
> $boxes[$box_id]['mi']['conn']="/tmp/opensips_fifo";
>
> /etc/opensips/opensips.cfg has:
> # ----- mi_fifo params -----
> modparam("mi_fifo", "fifo_name", "/tmp/opensips_fifo")
> modparam("mi_fifo", "fifo_mode", 0666)
>
> I've also tried various iterations of users and groups for mi_fifo, all
> with the same results. This includes setting owner:group to apache. I
> also tried to start it with 0777, same result.
>
> Sample from httpd/error_log:
> [Fri Jun 04 07:46:37 2010] [error] [client 10.11.226.42] PHP Warning:
> fopen(/tmp/opensips_fifo) [<a href='function.fopen'>function.fopen</a>]:
> failed to open stream: Permission denied in
> /opt/opensips_cp4/web/common/mi_comm.php on line 91, referer:
> http://10.5.10.21/opensips_cp4/tools/system/drouting/gateways.php
>
> I've been googling and reading for a day and a half now and can't
> resolve this. Anyone have other suggestions on where to look?
>
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