The following reply was made to PR config/2939; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jeff Bowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: config/2939: POST not allowed to .pl scripts in cgi-bin from forms that all operated under apache 1.26 Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 11:09:16 -0700 (PDT) On 1 Sep 1998, Jeff Bowers wrote: > In learning Perl, I placed a apache 1.26 server on or internet site. My > beginning Perl scripts had the basic "fill this out" and post it to a .txt > file. > I then updated to 1.30, and had some reconfiguring to do because of the > "virtual only" > config. for some time I never used this function (the pages display fine). > When I wanted to > update a perl script I tested an input and received the error "The requested > method POST > is not allowed for the URL /cgi-bin/form1.pl" This almost certainly means you don't have the URL in question setup to be executed as a script. What does the error log show? What happens if you just try to load the script in your browser? If it doesn't try to execute it, you haven't configured your server to execute scripts in that directory. Check your ScriptAlias directive.
