[Discuss] cgi-bin

[jdm at moylan.us (dan moylan)]

tom metro writes:
> dan moylan wrote:
> > moylan 2013[518] mount | grep var
> > moylan 2013[519]

> Try:

> % df /var
> Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1      471005560 92783160 354296692  21% /

> % mount | fgrep sda1
> /dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)

moylan 2013[530] df /var
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1        20G  5.4G   13G  30% /
moylan 2013[531] mount | fgrep sda1
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)

> > ...my local sites all seem to come up fine, the cgi-bin files
> > no longer do.

> So what happens when you try and access a CGI script? 404? The script
> source gets sent to the browser?

Not Found

The requested URL /cgi-bin/welcome.cgi was not found on this server.
Apache/2.4.6 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80

> What does the error log show?

Thu Dec 12 08:21:44.570702 2013] [cgid:error] [pid 1301:tid
3004140352] [client 127.0.0.1:46507] AH01264: script not
found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/welcome.cgi

oh, ho!

i link welcome.cgi to /usr/lib/cgi-bin and lo, it comes up.
what's going on here?  how am i supposed to set things up?

tia,
ole dan

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