--- Tim Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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/"
Hi Tim, Thanks for the help. I added both items to httpd.conf and then restarted httpd. Then I keyed http://localhost/~ja/cgi-ja/test.cgi into the browser location bar and got a "Not Found" response. Thinking the cgi-bin dir should be directly under /home/ja, I moved it there, restarted httpt, and got the same "Not Found" msg. Then I changed the Options line of the new block to read: Options none ExecCGI and restarted httpd. Nope. Likewise for just: Options ExecCGI It's gotta be something simple I'm missing. --- Jim (I'll stop shooting in the dark now.) > > 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 __________________________________________________ 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
