From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 17 15:43: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.idx.com.au (pop.idx.com.au [203.14.30.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8730537B590 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 15:42:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (tntwc01-3-15.idx.com.au [203.166.3.15]) by pop.idx.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA28810; Thu, 18 May 2000 08:42:06 +1000 From: Danny To: "Chris Walterhouse" , Subject: Re: perl and cgi Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 08:45:42 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <000101bfbffc$8adbfd00$61442a18@cr82452-a.pr1.on.wave.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00051908490603.00353@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Firstly, -You need superuser access (root) Do you have that? - Your PERL CGI program do a "whereis perl" on telnet - Your cgi-bin problem - Type in "locate httpd.conf" to find httpd.conf - Type "pico httpd.conf" - Locate the virtualhost there should be a line called "scriptalias". IT should show something like scriptalias /usr/www/somewhere/cgi-bin/ Hope that helps On Wed, 17 May 2000, Chris Walterhouse wrote: > Our company just purchased a new server running FreeBSD but we have a couple > of questions that our server support can't answer because he's out of town > for a while: > > 1. where would you find the path to perl 5 if you were to FTP into the > server? We're not sure is perl is installed or not. > > 2. where would you find the cgi bin in a freeBSD server? do you have to make > one? > > We were running a BSDI server with all this stuff installed and ready to go > before changing to freeBSD so we're not sure about the above. > > Thanks, > > Chris > Tattoos.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message