--- Tim Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Angstadt wrote: > > --- Tim Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jim Angstadt wrote: <snip> > > > > 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. > > > > This is expected. CGI scripts are not intended to > be called directly from the browser, instead they > are executed from the HTML post operation > located inside of a <FORM action="/cgi-ja/..."> > tag.
Thanks again for your help Tim. Most of my local cgi scripts are called directly from an html link, not a form. They have the html, css, and perl spread over several virtual pages. So I was expecting that to be doable on a server. (they are just fun scripts, not mandatory or business.) Also, it seems funny to have the test cgi script be callable (from a browser) from one location but not another. But, if that's a real limit, then I need to rethink my approach. I had planned to get the scripts working on linux locally (they work on Window 98 and Apache, locally) and then move them to a friend's server. > > I think your intention is to have different users > access their HTML files from their home directories. > The key Apache configuration tag for this is > "DocumentRoot". I apologize for not stating my intentions. I had hoped to have the scripts running on a server so that the server admin and I could play with a variety of "potentially useful" site enhancements. For example, a non-email comments form. Or a script that "draws" geometric shapes. While I try to get smarter on Apache, I'd love to hear any other ideas. --- Jim > > This might be achieved by linking > an html subdirectory in their home directory > to where ever "DocumentRoot" point to. > > Example: ln -s /home/ja/html /var/www/html/ja > > Again, this is just a guess. > <more snipping> __________________________________________________ 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
