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Date:      Thu, 09 Oct 1997 08:03:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
To:        Jack Wenger <info@bentreality.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Virtual Domain CGI-BIN
Message-ID:  <XFMail.971009080547.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19971008211949.00955310@acw-web.com>

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Jack,


Try to use:
Alias /cgi-bin/ /usr/home/jwenger/cgi-bin/

instead of ScriptAlias.

Patrick


On 09-Oct-97 Jack Wenger wrote:
>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!
>
>
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> Bent Reality Graphics                Jack Wenger, Owner
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