26. The CGI programs report access to that host is not authorized — what’s going on?

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## 26. The CGI programs report access to that host is not authorized—  what’s going on?

Those programs need to see a host in your hosts.conf before they will attempt communications. This keeps people from feeding it random `host=` settings, which would annoy others with outgoing connection attempts from your system.

If your hosts.conf(5) turns out to be configured correctly with proper `MONITOR` entries and all that, check the permissions. Your web server may be running the CGI programs as a user that can’t read the file.

If you run your web server in a chroot jail, make sure the programs can still read `hosts.conf`. You may have to copy it into the jail for this to work. If you do that, make sure it’s not writable by any of the user accounts which run inside the jail.

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