>From man chmod: "Any omitted digits are assumed to be leading zeros."
I was <blink>not</blink> wrong. :) On 12/13/05, Cristobal Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I should clarify (per the link Owen Berry provided): > > ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/" > > is telling the server that requests for > http://myImaginaryDomain.org/cgi-bin/ should be pointed to the Linux > directory named /var/www/cgi-bin/ > > That is, there is no Linux directory named /cgi-bin/ BUT there is a > /var/www/cgi-bin/ > > So if you're going to be changing the permissions on something, it > should be /var/www/cgi-bin/ > > -CMP > > On 12/13/05, Cristobal Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > sudo chmod 0755 /var/www /cgi-bin/ and sudo chmod 0755 > > > /var/www/cgi-bin/env_variables.pl. > > > > Why do you have that leading zero? I think it should be "sudo chmod > > 755 foo" (where foo is the file/directory you are trying to change). > > Also, I think you're trying to give the full path "/var/www/cgi-bin" > > instead of the path "/var/www/" and the non-existent "/cgi-bin/" > > (unless that space is a typo). > > > > -CMP > > > > > > > > Still no luck, any ideas why the script won't execute? > > > > > > On 12/13/05, Corey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > is there a space in the first line between /cgi-bin/ and > > > > "/var/www/cgi-bin/"? There isn't any reference to scriptalias in the > > > > apache2.conf yet so i can just place it there? > > > > > > > > On 12/13/05, Owen Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > What you're looking for in your Apache config files is something like > > > > > this: > > > > > > > > > > ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/" > > > > > > > > > > <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin"> > > > > > AllowOverride None > > > > > Options None > > > > > Order allow,deny > > > > > Allow from all > > > > > </Directory> > > > > > > > > > > Thus, you could place your Perl script in /var/www/cgi-bin/ and call > > > > > it > > > > > as http://localhost/cgi-bin/script.pl > > > > > > > > > > Note that this is CGI, which is not the same as mod_perl. Here is a > > > > > handy reference if you want to see what mod_perl is: > > > > > http://modperlbook.org/index.html. Indeed, the first chapter is > > > > > "Introducing CGI and mod_perl". > > > > > > > > > > Owen > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 14:29 -0500, Corey wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am setting up a testing web server on an Averatec 3270 running > > > > > > Ubuntu 5.04and Apache 2. The goal is to use it to test perl scripts > > > > > > (just learning) as > > > > > > well as php and mysql. So far I have installed apache, php, > > > > > > mod_perl > > > > > and > > > > > > mysql through apt-get. The testphp.php script works fine as well as > > > > > mysql > > > > > > but I don't know how to configure apache to run perl scripts. I > > > > > > don't > > > > > have > > > > > > a cgi bin, or if one is there I don't know where it is. Could > > > > > > anyone > > > > > > instruct me what I would have to do in apache2.conf to execute .pl > > > > > scripts > > > > > > and where i need to put a cgi directory? http://localhost is > > > > > > directed > > > > > to > > > > > > /var/www/. > > > > > > corey > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > TriLUG mailing list : > > > > > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > > > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > > > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Cristobal M. Palmer > > UNC-CH SILS Student > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ils.unc.edu/~cmpalmer > > "Television-free since 2003" > > > > > -- > > Cristobal M. Palmer > UNC-CH SILS Student > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ils.unc.edu/~cmpalmer > "Television-free since 2003" > -- Cristobal M. Palmer UNC-CH SILS Student [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ils.unc.edu/~cmpalmer "Television-free since 2003" -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
