[NTLUG:Discuss] parsing index.cgi

[David Camm]

cgi execution is NOT turned on by default in a user's web space.

let's say that your site's document root is /home/bobby

in apache's config file you would need the following:

<Directory /home/bobby>
Options ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
</Directory>

you might want other options (like followsymlinks). see the apache docs at 
httpd.apache.org.

on our servers, in the rare instances where we have cgi code running in a user's 
space, we put the above into the user's virtual host definition like so:

<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4>
ServerName www.bobby.com
DocumentRoot /home/bobby
<Directory /home/bobby>
Options ExecCGI [perhaps others, perhaps All]
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi [.pl]
</Directory>
more stuff....
</VirtualHost>


Bobby Wrenn wrote:
> I may be showing my ignorance here. But it happens often enough that it
> no longer embarrasses me.
> 
> Running confguration:
> 
> RH9.0 with apache and every apache module I can find load via RPM.
> 
> I am trying to install a web based file checkout system.
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/cms
> 
> When I load the file index.cgi in a browser I get the source listing of
> the file. I have added index.cgi to the DirectoryIndex directive in
> httpd.conf.
> 
> Any ideas what I am missing?
> 
> TIA
> Bobby
> 
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