I believe you need the trailing /
i.e. Alias /perl/ "/home/httpd/perl/"
(but why not use Scriptalias ?)
Rod
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Eberle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 12:48 AM
Subject: Location directive not working for mod perl
> I hope this is the correct mailing list for newbie mod perl questions.
> I have just installed mod_perl 1.24 with Apache 1.3.14. Mod perl seems
> to be running because upon startup of httpd, the Apache error log file
> says
>
> Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) mod_perl/1.24_02-dev configured -- resuming normal
> operations
>
> The problem I'm having is that the Location directive does not seem to
> be working. I have the following in my httpd.conf file:
>
> Alias /perl/ "/home/httpd/perl"
>
> <Location /perl>
> SetHandler perl-script
> PerlHandler Apache::Registry
> Options +ExecCGI
> allow from all
> PerlSendHeader On
> </Location>
>
> I have placed a file called test-cgi in the directory
> "/home/httpd/perl/". It is executable and runs if executed from the
> command line. However, when I try to call this script through the
> browser using the URL http://localhost/perl/test-cgi I get a 404 not
> found error (The requested URL /perl/test-cgi was not found on this
> server.The requested URL /perl/test-cgi was not found on this server.)
>
> The ScriptAlias directive works fine. I have:
>
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/"
>
> and the same file (test-cgi) placed in /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin
> executes without problems.
>
> This all seems very simple so I don't understand what I'm doing wrong.
> Any ideas anyone?
>
>
>
