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On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:41:21PM -0400, Ronny Serrano wrote: > Hi all. I'm a little new to linux and apache. I've been able to get by > in most situations using google and linux resources on the net to answer > most questions. Unfortunately this one is starting to get to me and I > could use a lil help. This isn't exactly what you're asking... but I recommend using mod_perl instead of putting Perl scripts in cgi-bin. What you're trying to do is run scripts in external perl processes; mod_perl runs scripts in the Apache process. It doesn't change the scripts at all, but vastly improves performance. Nathan > > I have a server that is running linux and apache on it at a hosted site. > A new requirement we have is to run some perl scripts on the box. I've > gone in and modified the httpd.conf file and restarted apache. The > following are the entries that I modified were the following: > > ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/" > > # > # "/var/www/cgi-bin" should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased > # CGI directory exists, if you have that configured. > # > <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin"> > AllowOverride None > Options None > Order allow,deny > Allow from all > </Directory> > > AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl > > > > On the options line I've tried ExecCGI, +ExecCGI and All. > The directory/scriptalias points to the correct directory. I've set the > rights on the script as 755. For some reason I get a Forbidden or a 403 > everytime I try to run one of these scripts directly over http. The > scripts are placed in the /var/www/cgi-bin directory. What am I missing? > I'm not using any .htaccess file.. Not that I know of. Should the rights > to the cgi-bin directory be 755 also? Any help would be greatly > appreciated. > > Ronny Serrano > Network Administrator > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://olduvai.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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