Roger,
I found the culprit. Near the beginning of the commonhttpd.conf, you'll
find a section that sets directory options for the website as a whole:
<Directory />
[blah, blah]
Deny from all
</Directory>
The "Deny from all" tells Apache to disallow anybody to connect from
anywhere unless individual directories specifically allow it. By default,
the HTML directory is set to allow everybody in, and it looks like the
cgi directory is too--except Apache assumes you'll put your stuff in
/var/www/perl rather than /var/www/cgi-bin. No idea why. The cgi-bin
directory is still set to "deny from all". So there are two possible
solutions:
1) If you're not worried about security, you can replace the "deny"
with "allow" in that in the <Directory /> section.
2) The better method is to replace the "deny" with "allow" in the
<Directory /var/www/cgi-bin> section.
Either way, don't forget to
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd reload
as root after you make the change.
Miark
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 09:32:27 -0700, Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke thusly:
> Hi,
>
> I can't get Apache to serve cgi pages on my 8.2 installation.
>
> Pointing Konqueror to http://localhost/ serves up the default Apache welcome
> page, but pointing it to http://localhost/cgi-bin/test-cgi yields the
> Forbidden - You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/test-cgi on this
> server message.
>
> I have not modified any of the /etc/httpd/conf files, seems like the defaults
> should work. I have changed the permissions of test-cgi to 755.
>
> Anyone know the minimum required configuration changes to run the test-cgi
> script under 8.2?
>
> TIA,
>
> Roger
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