Todd Slater wrote:
I am hosting a few sites for friends that need cgi access. I read
something about cgi scripts shouldn't be in the web document root for
security purposes--people being able to read them as text. I turned on
cgi by adding the ExecCGI in <Directory /home/*/public_html> which if I
understand is not secure?

What's the standard practice for doing this with users and virtual
hosts?

Todd

Create a cgi-bin directory in parallel to your docs direcory and make that the directory that is able to exec cgi scripts.
<Directory /home/*/cgi-bin>


and then  use ScriptAlias to make it available:
ScriptAlias  /cgi-bin/ /home/*/cgi-bin

That should get you on the right track.

rgds

Franki


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