From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 25 08:53:33 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51F001065673 for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:53:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC6348FC1E for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:53:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o3P8rQGI024703 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:53:26 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4BD40306.8070001@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:53:26 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fbsd1 References: <4BD3FF8E.6080500@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <4BD3FF8E.6080500@a1poweruser.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96 at happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: apache & Perl CGI programs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:53:33 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 25/04/2010 09:38:38, Fbsd1 wrote: > I have Perl and apache installed on my system. Do I have to do anything > additional to get apache to run Perl CGI programs? > Is putting the perl script in the cgi-bin directory at > /usr/local/www/data all it takes to make things work? Pretty much. Look at the apache documentation for 'ScriptAlias' and 'Options ExecCGI' and 'Add-Handler cgiscript .cgi' for details, but these should be set up already for the cgi-bin directory. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvUAwYACgkQ8Mjk52CukIzvfACfdEYDqJRFtyg+6IoLq1J0YTpK SEcAn0Z4+038CYWpkwz2etoHHWJJNPPL =sM0o -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----