Mine is slightly different, perhaps you need those extra two lines in the
directory setting?
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
<Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Bayley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "CLUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: permissions in /cgi-bin/
> I have:
>
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin/
>
> &
>
> <Directory /var/www/cgi-bin>
> AllowOverride All
> Options ExecCGI
> </Directory>
>
> I have tried adding an .htacces with 'Options +ExecCGI'
>
>
> all /var/www/... is 755
>
>
> I don't get it....
>
> : [
>
> ChrisB
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 10:10, Chris Bayley wrote:
> > I have have an out of the box apache install from Mandrake 8.2, I am
> > trying to get some CGI going but get this on the browser:
> >
> > Forbidden
> > You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/first.pl
> > on this server.
> >
> > And this from the log:
> > [error][client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration:
> > /var/www/cgi-bin/first.pl
> >
> > I guess it's to do with per-directory configs as first.pl runs from
> > /var/www/perl/ ok
> >
> > I just don't know what I'm looking for yet.....
> >
> > everything in cgi-bin has a+x
> >
> > ChrisB
> > : )
> >
> >
>
>
>
