RE: How can I display .html files in the /cgi-bin directory...

[Rahul Kohli]

Patrick,   The cgi-bin directory is meant for scripts by default bcoz of the setting mentioned in httpd.conf. The default document root is <apache_home>/htdocs if you place the html files in this directory you can view them thru browser using the URL: http://servername:port/my.html   my.html is your html filename.    But if you want to see html files in cgi-bin directory only then:   you wil be required to modify the DocumentRoot from the default <apache_home>/htdocs to <apache_home>/cgi-bin and make the change for the above mentioned path from cgi-bin to some other directory   ScriptAlias /some_other_dir/ “/usr/local/some_other_dir/”   <Directory “/usr/local/some_other_dir”>             Options +ExecCGI             AllowOverride All </Directory>   Regards, Rahul Kohli -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Lam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 1:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Vincent' Subject: How can I display .html files in the /cgi-bin directory... Dear all:   I have the following lines in my httpd.conf file:   ------------- ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ “/usr/local/cgi-bin/”   <Directory “/usr/local/cgi-bin”>             Options +ExecCGI             AllowOverride All </Directory> ------------------   However, I happen to have some .html files inside the /cgi-bin/ directory (it’s how the code is written).  I found that whenever I try to access the .html files in this directory I would get “500 Internal Server Error”.   How can I fix this problem?  I think this should be a pretty common one, right?   Thanks very much in advance,   Patrick