I'm not 100% sure when this happened, but somewhere along the line (or so my Unix sysadmin friend tells me), Apple changed the configuration on Apache on OS X so that HTML files stored in the cgi- bin directory (aka "CGI Executables") will not be served but will instead generate an "internal server error."

Now, the idea of storing non-executable files in the cgi-bin directory isn't smart to begin with, but I had a client who had done this early on and things worked OK until he upgraded to Tiger. (He'd skipped one or two upgrades in between, which is why we're not sure exactly when this happened.)

Anyway, don't do that. HTML and other non-executable files belong in the main (root) or document root directory on the Web server, not in the cgi-bin directory.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled and far more interesting programming.




~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dan Shafer, Co-Chair RevConWest '05 June 17-18, 2005, Monterey, California http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit/RevConWest

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