Apache/Perl question

[RSerrano at heartsonfire.com (Ronny Serrano)]

Ted,
 
I tried you setting using the /var/www/html
 
basically dropping the website piece and I'm still getting a Forbidden
error. I've even tried changing the cgi-bin directory to 777 and making
the user and group apache/apache.
 
still no go.
 
please keep the ideas coming.I saw Nathan's suggestion, but I'm not sure
if that would help me at this point. If I'm getting these errors should
I get basic CGI/Perl working before adding in something else?
 
-RS

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Swoyer [mailto:tswoyer at sworby.net] 
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:06 PM
To: Ronny Serrano; discuss at blu.org
Subject: Re: Apache/Perl question


Ronny,
 
On my server, my config file uses the following model:
 
Alias /website "/var/www/website/html"
<Directory "/var/www/website/html">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI
    AddHandler cgi-script .pl
    AllowOverride None
    Order Allow,Deny
    Allow from all
<Directory>
 
I have the /var/www/cgi-bin directory entry as you show it. I don't have
a separate AddHandler line as you show it (it is commented out).
 
Unless I am missing some other parameter, this seems to allow me to run
various perl scripts from my server. My config file provides support for
more than one web site and the Directory entry shown above is repeated
for any "website" that requires perl.
 
Hope this helps,

Ted Swoyer
tswoyer at sworby.net
 
SWORBY, LLC
Computer Support, Consulting and Training
for Businesses and Individuals
(978) 667-8558
www.sworby.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Ronny Serrano <mailto:RSerrano at heartsonfire.com>  
To: discuss at blu.org 
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 9:41 PM
Subject: Apache/Perl question



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.

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 



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