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CGI scripts can't retrieve HTML docs using lynx
Problem:
CGI scripts sometimes uses the text based command line browser "lynx" to retrieve remote documents. After a major Apache upgrade lynx would no longer work, instead exiting with an uninformative "/xxxxx: Access denied" where xxxxx is a random string of characters.
 
Solution:
Lynx is unable to create a temporary file. The home directory of the apache/nobody user is invalid or refers to a directory where apache/nobody doesn't have write permissions. Manually edit "/etc/passwd", it should look something like this:

"nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/tmp:"

 
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