Jim Angstadt wrote:
> Hi All, > > I'm trying to allow user accounts to have their own > cgi-bin directory on a RH 7.2, apache box at my home. > > For testing, I have file test.cgi. > (See below for file and permissions.) > > When the file is placed in /var/www/cgi-bin it works. > Meaning, when I open a browser and key in > http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.cgi > I see "Hello There". > > When placed in /home/ja/public_html/cgi-bin it does > not work. When I key in > http://localhost/~ja/cgi-bin/test.cgi > I have gotten either of two responses > 1. the script text > 2. an error msg: "Forbidden You don't have > permission to access /~ja/cgi-bin/test.cgi > on this server. I've never done this, but based upon the Apache configuration file syntax, this should be possible. Note: this might be close but not exact. Edit httpd.conf (mine's in /etc/httpd/conf) Got to the line that says: ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/" Below it add a new line that says: ScriptAlias /cgi-ja/ "/home/ja/cgi-bin/" Below that should be a directory tag: <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin"> with the cgi permissions. Clone that tag block for your new "/home/ja/cgi-bin" directory. To execute ja's scripts, prefix the HTML action tag with "/cgi-ja/". > > > I've tried changing cgi to pl, which had no effect. > > Have also messed with /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf > without success. That's not too surprising. > I don't know what I'm doing. But it didn't stop > me from hacking away. > > Google and tldp.org did not turn up anything that > helped. Neither did an Apache book I have. > > A detailed, simple tutorial would be nice. > > --- > Jim > > # ---------- test.cgi > #!/usr/bin/perl > use strict; > use warnings; > > use CGI qw(:standard); > use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser/; > > print header(); > print start_html("Testing"); > > print h1("Hello There"); > print end_html; > > # ---------- permissions for test.cgi > # edited for readability > # > Script started on Mon Feb 10 10:25:51 2003 > > ]0;ja@localhost:~[ja@localhost ja]$ ls -l > drwxr-sr-x 6 ja apache 4096 Feb 7 > 16:23 [01;34mpublic_html[00m > > ]0;ja@localhost:~[ja@localhost ja]$ cd public_html/ > ]0;ja@localhost:~/public_html[ja@localhost > public_html]$ ls -l > drwxr-sr-x 8 ja apache 4096 Feb 7 > 11:33 [01;34mcgi-bin[00m > > ]0;ja@localhost:~/public_html[ja@localhost > public_html]$ cd cgi-bin/ > ]0;ja@localhost:~/public_html/cgi-bin[ja@localhost > cgi-bin]$ ls -l test* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 ja apache 190 Feb 9 > 17:27 [01;32mtest.cgi[00m > > Script done on Mon Feb 10 10:26:39 2003 > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
