Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 14:57:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: unknown@riverstyx.net Cc: Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net>, Vince Gonzalez <vince@nycrc.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apache chokes on compiled CGI? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905171455070.15052-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905171403360.7583-100000@hades.riverstyx.net>
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On Mon, 17 May 1999 unknown@riverstyx.net wrote: > That's not true -- if you have a ScriptAlias directive for your cgi-bin > directory, all files are treated as CGIs. That's how the cgi-bin > directory is supposed to be set up, the name 'cgi-bin' doesn't convey any > special properties. Well, ~/public_html/cgi-bin isn't usually ScriptAliased for every user on the system. At the ISPs I've worked for at least. > On Mon, 17 May 1999, Doug White wrote: > > > On Sat, 15 May 1999, Donald Wilde wrote: > > > > > Recompiling Apache solved things, although I also let it create new conf > > > files and re-edited them to match my config, so perhaps something in > > > there was amiss, as you suggested. > > > > > > Interestingly enough, my FreeBSD-based ISP has the same problem. > > > > Note that Apache 3.X, by default, requires cgi's to have a .cgi extension. > > Otherwise it thinks it's a text file, even in the cgi-bin/ directory. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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