I think the gentoo default apache configuration doesn't allow users ExecCGI. You need to find the section in commonapache.conf titled <Directory /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin> and uncomment as required (or indeed, set another directory with ExecCGI permissions).
I take it your apache serves you regular html documents from ~/public_html/? Dan On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 12:24:45PM -0600, Alex wrote: > Has anyone here had problems with Apache running cgi programs? (I never > had this problem with apache under redhat). I see the following error > written to the suexec_log when I attempt to execute a CGI program from my > "traveler" account. > > info: (target/actual) uid: (traveler/traveler) gid: (users/users) cmd: Nav.cgi > emerg: cannot get docroot information (/home/traveler) > > Is this a permissions problem? the /home/traveler and > /home/traveler/public_html directories are all world readable and world > executable.... > > Thanks > > -Alex > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
