[TriLUG] Mandrake and Apache/cgi setup

[Jon Carnes]

You can check in the logs, that should tell you exactly what is going
on:
  /var/log/httpd/..

Some items you can do to trouble shoot:
 - make sure that /var/www.cgi-bin is set to 755 (and the files as well)
 - set the owner of the file to "apache" (the user that the web-server
runs as).
 - su as the user "apache" and then try to run the app from the
directory.

Good luck - Jon Carnes

On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 17:24, neuronet at cyberrad.org wrote:
> Pardon the newbie question...
> 
> I'm trying to setup cgi on a Mandrake 8.2 machine w/ Apache 1.3 to allow running perl
> scripts.
> 
> This is pretty much a 'stock' installation.  No changes made to startup
> scripts.
> httpd and httpd-perl are both running.  (Is this OK or a no-no?)
> 
> 
> /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf contains:
> 
>  ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin/
>  ScriptAlias /protected-cgi-bin/ /var/www/protected-cgi-bin/
> 
> and 
> 
>  <Directory /var/www/cgi-bin>
>      #AllowOverride All
>      AllowOverride None
>      Options ExecCGI
>      Order allow,deny
>      Allow from all
>  </Directory>
> 
> /var/www/cgi-bin is mode 711
> 
> test-cgi script in /var/www/cgi-bin mode 711
> 
> 
> When I try to access http://<myserver>/cgi-bin/test-cgi I get an error 
> 
> " Forbidden
>   You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/test-cgi on this server  "
> 
> 
> What am I missing??
> Is something chrooted? (Where do I look to find out? Hey - Don't laugh. 
> I said this was newbie material!! ;) )
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> -h
> 
> PS Same thing (different cgi-bin path) on a Debian box works just fine...  What gives???
> 
> 
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