cgi pblm

[bene-Gk2boCrsRs1AfugRpC6u6w at public.gmane.org (Ben Eisenbraun)]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 03:32:00PM -0400, dan moylan wrote:
> i would guess that this is some sort of configuration
> problem, but after studying the o'reilly rat book, i have
> not been able to hit on the right line to put into the
> configuration file (/etc/apache2/apache2-conf).
> 
>   AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
> 
> was suggested (though deprecated), but didn't help.
> 
> any clues?

In your httpd.conf set the LogLevel to debug, open a new term to tail the
error_log and then restart the server.  Hit your CGI URL.  It should spew
some useful log messages.

Also, what is the HTTP error code you're getting for the URL?

-ben

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