The httpd.conf file you attached looks right to me (the suggestion from Kobe
was wrong - you DO tell apache that a .pl extension is a cgi, unless you
have the perl module itself installed, which you don't seem to). I'd guess a
different problem, so please check:
1. What directory were you running the .cgi script from?
2. What language is the .cgi script written in (I surmise perl)?
3. What are the permissions of the cgi script (are they still 755, which is
correct)? What is its ownership (should NOT be root)?
4. What are the permissions of the directory it is in (should also be 755,
as I recall)?
5. Do you have any other configuration files present (such as srm.conf or
access.conf)? apache switched from using multiple config files to using a
single config file, but you don't say what apache version you are running,
so I don't want to assume too much here.
6. Can you run the same .cgi script from the command line? Is it possible
that the script itself contains a bug?
At 04:27 PM 9/5/99 +0530, Gaurav Agarwal wrote:
>This is in reference to the query i posted earlier on this mailing list.
>After sufficient amount of fiddling with the httpd.conf file, i have come to
>a point where on trying to execute a .cgi file in browser, i get the 403
>Forbidden Error. I have tried my best, and also went thru the whole apache
>manual, but to no avail.
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