[TriLUG] Mandrake and Apache/cgi setup

[Jon Carnes]

Modified to remove typo...

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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