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Date:      Wed, 8 Oct 1997 22:24:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net>
To:        info@bentreality.com (Jack Wenger)
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Virtual Domain CGI-BIN
Message-ID:  <199710090524.WAA15102@Gatekeeper.Alameda.net>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19971008211949.00955310@acw-web.com> from Jack Wenger at "Oct 8, 97 09:19:49 pm"

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> This might be a simple question, but I've tried the Apache newsgroup and
> haven't seen any kind of answer. Please help! I need this to work, because
> of a software package that will only work with the cgi-bin setup *above*
> the webroot, in my case /usr/home/virtdomain/cgi-bin.
> What I'm trying to do is setup cgi-bin for my virtual domains. I've been
> able to make it work when the cgi-bin is under the webroot, i.e. 
> "/usr/home/virtdomain/www/cgi-bin" where www is the web root. I do this
> using "ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/home/virtdomain/www/cgi-bin" in my
> httpd.conf. When I try to make the cgi-bin ABOVE the webroot, i.e.
> "/usr/home/virtdomain/cgi-bin" and change the conf file httpd.conf to
> "ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/home/virtdomain/cgi-bin" I get a 403 error, 
> "Forbidden You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/ on this
> server.", or the script just isn't found.  Any ideas? I can't see why this
> particular ScriptAlias doesn't work, and I know the permissions are set to
> 775 for the directory and files. I also have the "AddHandler cgi-script
> .cgi" in my srm.conf and a virtual domain setup that looks like this in my
> httpd.conf:
> 
> <VirtualHost www.bentreality.com>
> ServerAdmin webmaster@bentreality.com
> DocumentRoot /usr/home/jwenger/www
> ServerName www.bentreality.com
> <Directory /usr/home/jwenger/cgi-bin/>
> Options +ExecCGI
> DefaultType application/x-httpd-cgi
> </Directory>
> ErrorLog /var/log/brg-error_log
> TransferLog /var/log/brg-access_log
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/home/jwenger/cgi-bin/
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> Help!

What does the error log show ?

> 
> 
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