[users@httpd] root process running Apache

2013-04-12 Thread wejii
I am running apache2 with Ubuntu so that I can practice writing CGI/SQL scripts with perl. In ports.conf I have: NameVirtualHost *:80 Listen 127.0.0.1:80 the intention being to limit access only to my laptop (keep the outside world out). I read several times don't run apache as root. ps

Re: [users@httpd] locating cgi-bin

2013-04-08 Thread wejii
I had no luck with ScriptAlias. I set a UserDir public_html I used ExecCGI and AddHandler similar to you - That was the only way I found to run CGI scripts in Firefox. The Apache documentation does not help so much with Ubuntu. This page helped: