[TriLUG] Apache with mod_perl

[Cristobal Palmer]

> sudo chmod 0755 /var/www /cgi-bin/ and sudo chmod 0755
> /var/www/cgi-bin/env_variables.pl.

Why do you have that leading zero? I think it should be "sudo chmod
755 foo" (where foo is the file/directory you are trying to change.
Also, I think you're trying to give the full path "/var/www/cgi-bin"
instead of the path "/var/www/" and the non-existent "/cgi-bin/"
(unless that space is a typo).

-CMP

>
> Still no luck, any ideas why the script won't execute?
>
> On 12/13/05, Corey <ohkeepah at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > is there a space in the first line between /cgi-bin/ and
> > "/var/www/cgi-bin/"?  There isn't any reference to scriptalias in the
> > apache2.conf yet so i can just place it there?
> >
> > On 12/13/05, Owen Berry <oberry at trilug.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > What you're looking for in your Apache config files is something like
> > > this:
> > >
> > > ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
> > >
> > > <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
> > >     AllowOverride None
> > >     Options None
> > >     Order allow,deny
> > >     Allow from all
> > > </Directory>
> > >
> > > Thus, you could place your Perl script in /var/www/cgi-bin/ and call it
> > > as http://localhost/cgi-bin/script.pl
> > >
> > > Note that this is CGI, which is not the same as mod_perl. Here is a
> > > handy reference if you want to see what mod_perl is:
> > > http://modperlbook.org/index.html. Indeed, the first chapter is
> > > "Introducing CGI and mod_perl".
> > >
> > > Owen
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 14:29 -0500, Corey wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I am setting up a testing web server on an Averatec 3270 running
> > > > Ubuntu 5.04and Apache 2.  The goal is to use it to test perl scripts
> > > > (just learning) as
> > > > well as php and mysql.  So far I have installed apache, php, mod_perl
> > > and
> > > > mysql through apt-get.  The testphp.php script works fine as well as
> > > mysql
> > > > but I don't know how to configure apache to run perl scripts.  I don't
> > > have
> > > > a cgi bin, or if one is there I don't know where it is.  Could anyone
> > > > instruct me what I would have to do in apache2.conf to execute .pl
> > > scripts
> > > > and where i need to put a cgi directory?  http://localhost is directed
> > > to
> > > > /var/www/.
> > > > corey
> > >
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