Did you chmod +x <your script> ?

-Fred

On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Chris Fenton wrote:

>         I am new to the world of cgi. I have written some cgi scripts to
> retrieve files from a postgres database but instead of being executed only
> the code is displayed in the viewer. When I try to move the files into
> /cgi-bin/ I get a permission denied message. Running Apache as user "nobody"
> seems like a great idea. But perhaps I must run apache as a "real" user to
> get cgi to execute or am I missing something fundemental. Why is it always
> the easy questions that are never explained in the books :) 
> Chris Fenton 
> 
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