Couple of things to check: Now, if I'm reading this correctly, you already
have http://hostname/cgi-bin/perlfile.cgi running if you point the browser
directly to that link. Now, you're trying to get that script to run by
pointing to http://hostname/cgi-bin/ itself. The first thing I would check
is the Apache config file, searching for a line that starts with
"DirectoryIndex" and should have a list of files after it, like "index.html
index.htm" and so on. Make sure that you insert index.cgi (or whatever you
want to actually name the script, it could just as easily be perlfile.cgi)
into that line. These entries are checked for in order, so if your line
looks like this:
DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html index.cgi
and two files exist in the directory, one named index.html and one named
index.cgi, the index.html will be served up instead of the index.cgi.
Of course, if you're having trouble getting the dang thing to run in the
first place, then that's a different solution. If so, let us know.
Dave K.
David T. Kuchler
Technical Configurator
Pioneer Standard Electronics
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brett W. McCoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 5:31 PM
To: Frank J. Schmuck
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Apache and cgi-bin directory - Redhat 7.1
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Frank J. Schmuck wrote:
> I have apache set up on a Linux machine running Redhat 7.1 (local home
> network). The install (from rpm) placed the directories as follows:
>
> /var/www/html
> /var/www/cgi-bin
> /var/www/icons
>
> I can point a browser to 192.168.xxx.xxx and I am taken to the
/var/www/html
> directory and the file index.html is displayed showing that the apache
> install went ok. I can replace that index.html file with another (or edit
> the original) to include a link to a script in the cgi-bin directory which
> is executed with the URL shown as
> http://192.168.xxx.xxx/cgi-bin/perlfile.cgi.
>
> However I can't point the browser to http://192.168.xxx.xxx//cgi-bin
> directly to execute a script.
>
> Any idea what is going on I appear to have the same permissions in both
> directories.
What error message are you getting? What do the Apache logs have to say?
If you have a link of http://servername/cgi-bin/perlfile.cgi that you can
click on and run the script, you should be able to type that same url into
the browser and get the same result. Are you sure you are typing in the
exact same url?
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/
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